ADM. HALSEY'S ATROCITY
Mayor, Milton
Adm. Halsey's Atrocity By MILTON MAYER IT is my painful public duty to inform the American people that Adm. William F. ("Bull") Halsey committed an atrocity against a 9-year-old girl in a darkened...
...indeed, I was holding her hand...
...I love my country, but, like Socrates, I love the truth more...
...It wasn't me, boss...
...LITTLE GIRLS HIS VICTIMS...
...The theatre was crowded, and there were hundreds of witnesses...
...social pariahs, outcasts, ruined women, going through the streets saying that it is a pleasure to burn people...
...I know that this horrible revelation of the conduct of the intrepid commander of the Third U. S. Fleet will shock every decent American...
...I do deny that the Japanese people originated either from apes or bulls...
...I suppose the treacherous Japanese, bestial apes that they are, will make the most of my revelation...
...Permit me to wipe away a tear, clear my throat, and regain my composure...
...You will observe above, that it was Little Julie who called him a fool...
...I seized Little Julie in my arms and dragged her out of the theater...
...I believe I would rather see her dead than ruined by "Bull...
...William F. ("Bull") Halsey committed an atrocity against a 9-year-old girl in a darkened movie house in Topeka, Kansas, several weeks ago...
...I thought of making this grisly revelation a month or so ago, when a newspaper quoted "Bull" as saying that in his opinion the Japanese people originated in the following manner: all the male murderers and degenerates in China were loaded on a boat and taken to an island inhabited exclusively by apes...
...Yes, I can see the headline in the Tokyo papers, if there are any papers in Tokyo, if there is any Tokyo: AMERICAN ADMIRAL'S ATROCITIES...
...Fighting is what admirals, including Japanese admirals, are for...
...I can not help it...
...There must have been dozens of little girls ruined that afternoon in the midst of their Karmelkorn...
...Now I can go on...
...I know, now, why they call him "Bull...
...High treason or low treason," said Little Julie, standing her ground like a WAC at bay, "anybody who says it's a pleasure to burn people is a fool...
...I was present when the atrocity was committed...
...But I restrained myself at that time, largely, I will admit, because I did not want to be accused of high treason for calling an admiral a fool...
...And I charge the admiral with high treason against the human spirit when he asserts that it is a pleasure to burn people...
...Treason Against Human Spirit Last week, however, the newspapers blazoned this headline: HALSEY ACCUSES JAPANESE OF CANNIBALISM, VIVISECTION...
...Besides," she added, with an irresistible pout, "they can't hang a little girl for treason...
...as Sarah Bernhardt used to say...
...It was too late...
...There was "Bull," on the screen, big as life...
...the male apes were all killed ; and the murderers and degenerates were mated with the female apes, and the progeny was the Japanese...
...I do not deny "Bull's" charges of atrocities against the Japanese, and I am surprised that he does not accuse the bestial apes of committing atrocities against 9-year-old girls...
...the victims of "Bull" Halsey's atrocity...
...M," said she, addressing me in her usual manner, "that man is a fool...
...She was eating Karmelkorn...
...The atrocity had been committed...
...Hush," said I, giving her such a smack she shouldn't know from where it should come from, "don't you know that it is high treason to call an admiral a fool...
...It may even injure the national morale and impede the war effort...
...I can not help it...
...Helas...
...I can only pray that she escaped by confining her reading to the funny page...
...The victim was a little girl named Julie, and I can produce her, in fact have, at the drop of a hat...
...The last bridge had been blown on the screen, the last villain riddled, the last Spanish beauty saved from the fascists, and the newsreel went on...
...As I say, Little Julie survived the atrocity intact, but there were other little girls in the theatre that day, many of them, I am sure, less hardy than mine, and they will grow up deformed, maimed, and debased...
...Fortunately, since Little Julie is no ordinary maiden, the atrocity didn't take...
...He was being interviewed by the press in Washington, D. C. He said: "We are drowning and burning the bestial apes all over the Pacific, and it is just as much pleasure to burn them as drown them...
...I seen him when he done it...
...The Bell Tolls For Decency This is my eye-witness report, and I defy "Bull" to deny any single detail of it: Little Julie was sitting in the Jayhawk Theater in Topeka, on a sunny Saturday afternoon, enjoying the innocent diversion of a movie called For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...I was not in Topeka to protect Little Julie from this latest of "Bull's" atrocities against little and big girls and boys...
...I have kept my silence for 2 months, and I break it now only in the public interest...
...That was too much for me...
...I was close enough to her to touch her...
...His bosom was pendulous with medals...
...And so I am compelled to speak out at last...
...I will dismiss the atrocity charge, rather than let Little Julie be subjected to the shame of testifying, if "Bull" will agree to leave Little Julie alone and tend to his fighting...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 18
