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Wisdom & Wine. Before the court were the 1953 cases of Dorothy Krueger Smith and Clarice Covert. Mrs. Smith, daughter of wartime Army General Walter Krueger, was found guilty by a court-martial of stabbing her husband, an Army colonel, to death in their quarters in Japan. A court-martial convicted Mrs. Covert of the ax murder of her husband, an Air Force master sergeant, in England. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that their military convictions and life sentences for murder were valid, with Justices Tom Clark, Harold Burton, Stanley Reed. Sherman Minton and John Marshall Harlan in the majority...
...Government lawyers after they studied the decision had an even sounder ground for bewilderment: in taking jurisdiction away from military courts, the Supreme Court provided no substitute. If military courts cannot try such civilians as Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith, who can? Clearly, no U.S. civilian court now has venue in such overseas cases. -Should Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith-and others like them-be turned over to the countries in which they committed their crimes? That answer would raise such a row as to make the noisy case of Specialist William Girardt seem a quiet thing indeed...
...purge his Cabinet of its three most notorious pro-Communist members. The Cabinet replied by voting to establish diplomatic relations with "our good friend the Soviet Union." The Palestinian leftists figured that they had Hussein licked-not so much because they dominated Parliament, controlled the streets and enjoyed the covert cooperation of young Army Chief Ali Abu Nuwar, but because Nasser, the overlord of Arab nationalism, was on their side...
...Overt & Covert. Much of the uproar, as the U.S. duly noted and compensated for, was due to the fact that the politicians caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat. Much of it reflected a last wild try to wreak a change in the U.S.'s stand against British-French-Israeli aggression in Suez. "If we all get hot enough under the collar," said the Daily Sketch, "the warmth of the conflict may perhaps penetrate the icy coldness and hostility in Washington...
...come up with a strikingly optimistic conclusion. No Mexican-American would ever be ejected from any restaurant as in the movie. On the other hand, no son of a Benedict would ever marry a Mexican-American (unless she had money). Prejudice, of any kind, is much subtler, more covert, covered with glad manifestations--and is thus much more incurable than Hollywood can conceive...