Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court retired for 30 minutes and then returned to ask whether there were any records of previous convictions against Colonel Mitchell. There were none. Again the Court returned, to come back more than two hours later with its verdict...
...prosecution called Major General Charles P. Summerall, who was originally President of the court martial and withdrew (TIME, Nov. 9) when Colonel Mitchell made charges against his fairness. He was reputed at that time to have said: "I thought Colonel Mitchell was my friend. Henceforth he and I are enemies." The defense asked him whether he had made such a statement...
...Dennis E. Nolan, Acting Chief of Staff, was called by the prosecution. He read a letter dated March 24, 1925, signed by John Wingate Weeks, then Secretary of War, which had been taken from the White House files. It was written to explain why the Secretary had not recommended Colonel Mitchell's reappointment as Assistant Chief of the Air Service. The letter said that Colonel Mitchell had told a committee of Congress that the U. S. had but 19 planes fit for war, whereas the Government had 829 planes in use, 763 in storage, 209 on order; that the spending...
...final day of the trial began with Colonel Mitchell speaking for himself...
...prosecution asked for the Colonel's dismissal from the Army for the sake of the Army, for the sake of the young officers of the Air Service whom he misled, in the name of truth, finally "in the name of the American people, whose fears he has played upon, whose hysteria he has fomented, whose confidence he has beguiled and whose faith he has betrayed...