Reply #33: What you say is true, the actual Order was MacArthur [View All]

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But Patton was enthusiastic about going after those "Commies". Many of Patton's later problem with the Press During WWII can be traced to Newspaper men remembering how enthusiastic he was to attack the Bonus Army. Patton was even involved with a plan to intern US Citizens of Japanese Descent while he was stationed in Hawaii during the late 1930s.

Patton was a product of his time (the early 1900s) and his background (The Middle South, he was from Virginia). This colored his outlook for Commies was under every bed and had to be sniffed
out.
For Details see :
http://www.worldwar2history.info/North-Africa/Patton.html

One quote from the book sums up Patton:
"Prejudice defined Patton's outlook and his conduct. In 1932 he enthusiastically joined then-chief of staff Douglas MacArthur to flush "Communist" Bonus Army marchers from the capital, in the process unceremoniously ejecting from the marchers' encampment the ex-sergeant who had saved his life in France. As chief of army intelligence on Hawaii in 1936, he drew up lists of prominent Japanese-Americans to be seized as "hostages" on the outbreak of war. His anti-Semitism exceeded by a considerable margin the polite golf club standards of America between the wars. General Joseph Stilwell called Patton a "braggart," while George Marshall's wife publicly admonished Patton that his profanity and "outrageous" statements little became a man who aspired to general rank."