Word: girard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo, where he awaits a Japanese trial for manslaughter, Army Specialist Third Class William Girard, center of a celebrated legal case, sprang himself from Camp Whittington for three hours of AWOL bottling in a Japanese saloon, was placed back under 24-hr, guard when he showed up at camp again...
TIME is to be commended for its presentation of the Supreme Court decisions in the Girard case, one of the few clear voices heard above the din of misrepresented facts and selfish desires...
This kind of justice to G.I.s might make some U.S. citizens feel better about turning over U.S. Soldier William Girard to the Japanese courts, but Tokyo's Mainichi had a deeper worry: "This is like telling the world that in Japan you can do anything if you are drunk. Perhaps we should advertise Japan abroad not as the land of Mt. Fuji and geishas but as a paradise for alcoholics." About twelve Japanese a year win acquittal on murder charges by proving they were drunk or drugged (a plea that is no defense at all in U.S. courts). Announced...
...veterans saw was the Administration's $3.8 billion foreign-aid authorization bill finally emerging from committee. Slashed by $227 million in the Senate, the bill seemed likely to fare far worse in a House still riled by the Administration-and Supreme Court -decision to turn Army Specialist William Girard over to the Japanese for trial (TIME, July...
Indeed, the decision had a far-reaching impact. Even as the U.S. bowed to the limitations of international law, it strengthened its expanding case for a world governed by law. By giving Soldier Girard the right to make his case, by subjecting the judgment of U.S. generals, Cabinet members and President alike to the searching inquiry of law, the U.S. had made a strong, exemplary case for the processes of justice. This, coupled with the ruling of its highest court upholding the rights of other nations, said more than a thousand guns about the kind of world that Soldier Girard...