Army & Navy - MORALE: He Wants Home

"The Stars & Stripes incident [has] brutally exposed one open sore in the American fighting man," cabled TIME Correspondent Will Lang last week: "He is the most homesick soldier in the world."

The "incident" was a small explosion touched off by the Stars & Stripes in Italy in an editorial entitled: "He Wants Home." Sure, the U.S. doughboy wants to go home, said the editorial, but "there is hardly a thinking man . . . who doesn't admit that it would be foolish to throw away all the battle experience picked up by our veteran troops by sending them home to...

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