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...Gibraltar last week Bandmaster Barnacle became the star witness at the celebrated court-martial of two officers charged with having complained, "in a manner subversive of discipline," against the alleged insulting conduct and awful oaths of their superior, peppery Rear Admiral Bernard St. George Collard (TIME, April 9). The two court-martialed officers are Captain Kenneth G. B. Dewar and Commander Henry M. Daniel. In support of their contentions Bandmaster Barnacle took the stand, braced himself and testified that he personally had been called a series of unprintable names by Rear Admiral Collard. The names, it appeared, all began with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trial by Oaths | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

When Captain Dewar was placed on trial, last week, he asked and received permission to cross examine Rear Admiral Collard. Then for some four hours snarling questions and vituperative rejoinders flew between Captain and Admiral, both of whom purpled gradually with rage and seemed to become oblivious to the presence of the august Court. Printable excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trial by Oaths | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...Collard: "I have no intention of imagining myself a bandmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trial by Oaths | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...Collard: "I said I was fed up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trial by Oaths | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

When Rear Admiral Collard was called upon to give his version of the incidents described he gruffed: ". . . Commander Daniel should have made proper introductions at the dance . . . disgraceful to have so many ladies sitting out the dances without partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Admiral's Oaths | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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