General Attacks Caste In Army Organization

Speaking informally to a small group in Phillips Brooks House Lounge for the Veterans' League of America, Brigadier General H. C. Holdridge last night assailed the Army caste system, calling it "feudalistic, undemocratic, and unAmerican."

The General, a veteran of 30 years in the Regular Army, analyzed the subject in the same straightforward manner, testifying against peacetime conscription before the House Military Affairs Committee in February.

"A close look will show that the Army is an anachronism," he stated. An aristocratic officer clique, founded in the time of George Washington, he went on, is responsible for the cleavage between the professional soldier and civilian enlistee.