OCCUPATION DUTIES

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 263, 5 August 1942, Page 6

OCCUPATION DUTIES

Staffs In Training For U.S. Army WASHINGTON, June 20. The United States Army is taking comprehensive steps to ensure that American occupation of Axis or Axisheld territory will result immediately in ini improvement of local civil, political, economic, and sanitary conditions. A number of America’s greatest authorities on the practical and theoretical aspects of government are giving intensive instruction to 60 handpicked army officers at the new Army School of Military Government, now sitting at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. The school is operated by the office of the Provost Marshal-General and is designed to train the officers who will help to organize and take up the administration work in enemy territory in the wake of invading American armies. , , Great care has been taken in tne selection of this specially-trained personnel, the Army says, students being chosen because of their past practical experience in local, State, and Federal government. All types of engineers are being taken. All men so far taken were already in service when chosen for Charlottesville. The scope of the men’s future work can be judged from the fact that their training .will emphasize instruction in the international law of military government and the American regulations, the general principles of btate and municipal government, police, power, public, business, communications, economic problems, American exP®"® 11 ** in military government, and politicomilitary backgrounds.