OPERATIONS IN ITALY
GENERAL MARK CLARK ATTACKED “LIVES THROWN AWAY NEEDLESSLY ” (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 11. “General Mark Clark needlessly threw away gallant lives in Italy,” said Senator Tom Connally, after hearing the evidence of five colonels before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. which is inquiring into General Clark’s fitness for promotion to the permanent rank of major-general. The Associated Press says that colonels who served with the 39th Division, which suffered heavy casualties at the Rapido river in 1944, told the committee that General Clark throughout the Italian campaign demonstrated his unfitness for promotion. Colonel Ainsworth said that General Clark ordered the Rapido river assault against the advice of his subordinate officers. He added that in fighting against promotion for General Clark they were fighting not only the individual alone but a powerful military system, in which efficiency and capability were discarded for seniority and classmates’ control. *
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24900, 13 June 1946, Page 5
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