Wondering

In a week when USFET Commander General Joseph T. McNarney told his press conference that "discipline has tightened up considerably," the streams of unsavory stories from U.S.-occupied Europe remained at flood. Births in the U.S. zone were 30% illegitimate. Rowdy G.I. drunkenness forced German families to stay home after dark whenever a liquor ration was issued. Green troops, hell-bent for pleasure and to hell with the brass, found that no orders applied after retreat. Some of their officers were as bad, or worse. Items:

P: In Bad Nauheim, a Negro soldier, called as a prosecution witness in the Lichfield trials, was shot by a comrade in a fight over a 16-year-old German girl.

P: In Kassel and Nuernberg, Provost Marshal officers admitted the suicides of two German women in the apartments of U.S. officers.

P: In Frankfurt, Army investigators kept mum about the death of a civilian stenographer, whose naked body was found outside an Army captain's quarters, six days after her arrival in Germany.

In the Stars & Stripes B-Bag column, a callous G.I. summed it up: "I've lost my Fraeulein. The other day I gave her my week's candy ration, and when I went back to see her, she did not want anything to do with me. Could it possibly be that she did not like the licorice sticks, the peanut bar and the tropical chocolate? I admit I don't like them, but then I'm not starving." He signed it: "Wondering."

In the U.S., plain citizens were wondering, too.

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