CATS OFFICERS TO JOIN A.M.G

Nearly 100 Civil Affairs officers, of both the Army and Navy, were graduated from Harvard University's Civil Affairs Training School in exercises held last Friday in the Faculty Room of University Hall. These officers comprise the second class of men Harvard has trained to govern occupied territories in the Far East.

Assistant Provost Marshall General H. M. Bryan USA, in his address to the officers, said that CATS were serving in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Austria, and in the Phillippines and other areas taken by American troops in the Pacific Theatre. Eventualy, he said, CATS officers would govern conquered peoples in the heart of Tokyo.

Stressing the vital importance of the CATS mission, Brigadier-General Bryan said that Civil Affairs officers have to furnish the follow-through to the Army's combat operations. He cited the history of the CATS experiences, pointing to the unpreparedness and mismanagement before and during the North African campaign. "But after Sicily, where the CATS were viewed at first with skepticism and later with gratification and even enthusiasm, the Civil Affairs officers have become very much in demand," General Bryan continued