Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dingy courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square was crowded with G.I.s. On its 48th day, the trial of a prison guard from the U.S. Army's loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield was still a big attraction for men who remembered the planned brutalities, the beatings, the dosing with castor oil, which had made Lichfield infamous (TIME...
...Sergeant Baldassare, bald and toothless, his shoulder awry from a Japanese blow, had kept himself alive to say a little more than that, and in different tones. He stopped outside the courtroom and made a fierce little speech...
Refreshed by their twelve-day vacation, the 20 defendants filed back into Nürn-berg's courtroom. But even the arrogant Nazi war criminals could not work up much enthusiasm for wishing each other Prosit Neujahr (Happy New Year). Slowly but surely the case against them was building up. The Allied prosecution continued to pile up evidence, detailing their guilt with an endless chain of chilling facts. The civilized world, like the Nazis, might have become bored with these horror stories-a U.S. reporter muttered: "0 God, more of the same!"-but the prosecution had more to tell...
When the three officers were marched into the Delhi courtroom last week, their faces were grave. Colonel E. K. Squire, resplendent in ribbons and scarlet collar tabs, began to read the verdict: "All three of you are guilty ... of waging war [against the State]. . . . The sentence of the Court ... is transportation for life, cashiering and forfeiture of arrears of pay and allowances." One prisoner blinked, another swayed, the third looked fixedly ahead...
When the trial recessed for Christmas, there were few in the courtroom who doubted Meyer's fate. He had an ally in his wife, who sat listening tensely as her husband's life hung in the balance. To newsmen she said: "He is a good family...