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Show ;>u CHAPTER II As a captain with secret and often subversive reactions, Sid Wilson was caught in a crossfire: to be an officer and strict, or a civilian (temporarily on loan to tha army) and easy-goin In the larger canters like Tokyo or Osaka discipline was maintained with soma rigidity, but in Oji each of the two organizations was distinct, and while Engineer MPs had no compunction about arresting Detachment men (Detachment MPs rendering tha same courtesy to their brothers across the bay), generally Bach group kept to itself. From the Engineers' point of visw the Detachments were laughable anyhow: most were nisei, and far from seeing anything reprehensible in fraternizing, tendsd to think that was what ths Occupation was for. Thsir MPs' progress up and down tha strssts of Naka was mors like tha aftarnoon paseo around a Mexican plaza than a circuit prescribad by law in its saarch for malefactors. Sid's sympathy was on tha side of tha Detachments. Ha had always felt that there were more rules than the army nssded, and while he tried to sea that the man performed their duties, kept their hair cut (a touchy point: thsy rsgarded thair rich black locks as invitations to test their virility) and generally obayed the rules, hs saw no reason to forbid the |