Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHARLES R. KELLER JR. Colonel, U.S.A.F. Mobile...
...lifted, and King Hussein thanked the Legion in a broadcast for restoring order, adding: "During the crisis we have identified faces and intentions which do not have the good of the country at heart." First reports said 18 had been killed, 100 wounded. One of those killed was Lieut. Colonel Patrick Lloyd, one of the Arab Legion's 60 British officers...
...true, that in those days one Moroccan raped a fraulein, then killed her by biting through her jugular vein. The French deny that Moroccans committed more rape than any other troops, but they are sole possessors of the statistics, and do not release them. Protested much-respected French Colonel Pierre Charton: "The Moroccan soldier is exceptionally well disciplined . . . But you must always keep a certain distance." The French offered to import enough Moroccan camp followers to keep the Moroccans happy on the base, but this Gallic solution did not satisfy the Germans. County Administrative Officer Robert Lienhart led the outcry...
...role of the investigating colonel who insists on finding the real root of the major's treason, Arthur Kennedy is magnificent. The defendant's refusal to testify obviously disturbs him, yet he maintains a casual air throughout, with the result that he seems not only human, but typically Army. This effect arises naturally from the playwrights' lines, which have neither the sparkle of the drawing-room nor the hysteria of the melodrama, but flow along calmly, with occasional light touches in a vein that could be found in any Army office. Kennedy, however, makes these lines extremely effective by never...
...stutters and seems generally ineffectual, and in the entire conception of the part of Sergeant Baker. The sergeant, played by Frank Aletter, is a little too delicate for the crude lines he is given, but the main trouble is that in the Army sergeants simply do not assault colonels, not even verbally. The sergeant's function to provide friction--thus making the colonel's refusal to abandon the case seem more heroic--would be better fulfilled by a quiet, grumbling misunderstanding than by his present direct attack on the colonel. Allyn McLerie's performance as the colonel's (female) secretary...