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Show U. S. Soldiers Protest It is hard to understand the action of certain American soldiers sol-diers who, according to the news dispatches, recently protested redeployment re-deployment training and an occupation oc-cupation force assignment in the Pacific. That the men perfer to go home is natural but that they go so far as to telegraph congressmen and newspapers in protest a-gainst a-gainst orders, which presumably were based upon fair consideration considera-tion of the services rendered by all soldiers is surprising. We remember that when the Army announced its schedule of points for the discharge of men in service there was a loud complaint. com-plaint. Infact, before the system was generally known we .were apealed to by some interested persons to add our small voice to the clamor that all men in Europe should be brought home and discharged. So far as we could judge the War Department made a genuine effort to be fair to all service men in settinf up the point system. sys-tem. Its fairness could not be judged solely by its effect upon any one soldier. It had to be fair to all men under arms and attempt at-tempt to render justice between conflicting claims. The same observation, ob-servation, we believe, applies to the decision that determines which units shall belong to the forces of occupation. |