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Poge 8THE STARS AND STRIPESFriday, October 12, 1945Patton Sees New WarGenerals Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) and George S. Patton Jr. shown as they left Eisenhower's headquarters after Patton was called on the carpet to answer questions about the slowness of his de-Nazification program in Bavaria. (AP Photo)Dock Strikers Vote To Stay Out; Film Studio Strike OulBAD NAUHEIM, Germany, Oct. 11—United Press quoted the iormer 3rd Army commander, General George S. Patton, who assumed command Monday of the U. S. 15th Army in Germany, * as predicting Tuesday that another war is inevitable.UP said that General Patton refused to speculate on what mations would participate in such a war or when or where it , would be fought. He said no wars are logical because logical rthinkers would not create them, the agency reported. It quoted Jhim as continuing in part:“Therefore we have to conclude that wars are started by madmen — madmen who claim some kind of outrage. Who, except God, is capable of telling when or where a situation will occur that develops another madman?”In Washington, Sen. Brien McMahon (D., Conn.) spoke in sharp disagreement with General Patton’s statement. Mc-( .Mahon said:General Patton is one of our truly great military leaders.lt;Tlis very eminence makes most unfortunate and regrettable ( the statement attributed to him. This is a prophesy of doom. Let us not accept the theory that aether war is inevitable.”NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (INS) — Striking longshoremen, whose walkout paralyzed shipping in New York and delayed the return of homecoming troops, voted almost unanimously yesterday against returning to work.Six vessels, carrying 12,300 returning war veterans, were due in port to join the 369 ships already immobilized by the 10-day-old strike of 35,000 dock workers.Soldiers today finished unloading the giant liner Queen Elizabeth, which is slated to return to Europe tomorrow.CALL OUT DEPUTIESHOLLYWOOD, Oct. 11 (UP)— There was little indication today that movie making at Warner Brothers' studio would be resumed following the arrest of 600 pickets by 200 deputy sheriffs carrying tear gas and sub-machineguns yesterday.A studio spokesman said that very few” workers entered the gates after the picket line was removed through arrests on charges of unlawful assembly.MOBS DOCKERS STRIKELONDON, Oct. 11 (AP)—Several thousand more British dockers went on strike today as a threatened nationwide walkout spread across the country, leaving needed food supplies perishing in idle miles of wharves from London to Northern Ireland and Scotland.Ignoring Government appeals to stay on the job, to 2,000 more London stevedores refused to board food ships and persuaded port clerks into joining the walkout.Allied Commission For Japan Created(Continued from page 1) eign Policy Association, to be the U. S. representative on the Par Eastern Advisory Commission.2. He has appointed Mark Ethridge, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, to investigate political conditions in the Russian-dominated Balkans as a next step in American consideration of whether to recognize the Governments of Rumania and Bulgaria.3. The U. S., Russia and Britain agreed at Berlin to take up separately with Turkey the question of revising the international control policy of the Dardan-THE ACCUSED BENDS AN EARGeneral Anton Dostler listens stolidly as the prosecution sums up his trial on charges of being a war criminal.(Courtroom sketch by Staff Artist Paul Martin)Court To Reveal Verdict In Dosller's Trial Today(Continued from page 1)can be sentenced to death, be imprisoned or fined.And on the forthcoming ruling of the commission — comprised of Maj. Gen. Lawrence O. Jaynes, president, Brig. Gen. Thobum K. Brown and Cols. Harrison Shaler, Franklin T. Hammond Jr. and James Notestein—is focused the attention of much of the world.For should the stubby, 53-year-old defendant’s plea be upheld that only the highest authority is responsible for war crimes, fat Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and all surviving members of the nrnmhlpd Nazi hierarchy can claimuniform of soldiers of the U. S. Army.“It is forbidden under the Hague Convention to wound or kill an enemy who has surrendered and has no means of defense. But these men had surrendered, were defenseless and they were killed.”For over 500 years, said the prosecutor, that had been the rule of war. Helpless,captives no longer, as in the days of the Roman Empire, are dragged tlirough the. streets and cold-bloodedly massacred. But only 45 hours elapsed from the time the hapless American demolition group were taken prisoner until they were shot by a German firine sauad.
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