The War Department last week just barely lifted the lid of a Pandora's box, gave the public a quick look at the horrors within and then slammed the lid down. The glimpse was enough to show how the Army's little-known Chemical Warfare Service, without firing a shot, had won its weird war.
The lid-lifting also disclosed a taut, little major general who is as little known as the service which he heads. Alden Harry Waitt joined CWS when it was organized in 1918, has stayed with it ever since, taking time out to...
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