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...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...
...Right to Decide. The decision was handed down in the headlined case of Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, 21, who shot and killed a Japanese woman while on duty, but without authorization, on a rifle range in Japan last January. The sharp issue was whether the Administration had the right to decide -as it did decide-to grant a Japanese request for jurisdiction over Girard under the status-of-forces agreements. Federal District Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy had held that since Girard acted while on duty, he had a constitutional right to a U.S.'court-martial (TIME...
...Exemplary Case. The Girard decision brought few all-out editorial huzzas, plenty of jeers. The internationalist-minded Baltimore Sun approved the decision, but blamed U.S. administrative bungling for failure to give Girard full benefit of the status-of-forces agreement. The Hearst New York Journal-American thought that "the basic rights of this American soldier have been violated." New York's tabloid Daily News roared that the Supreme Court, "like Pontius Pilate . . . has washed its hands . . . This stinking affair has disgusted tens of millions of us." The News admonished Congress to get busy with remedial legislation. And Ohio...
...Japan, Soldier Girard telephoned his mother in Ottawa, Ill. to tell her: "Don't cry. I know I'll get a fair trial." He believed he would be acquitted by the Japanese court (presumably on a showing of accident). Maebashi District Judge Yuzo Kawachi, who will preside over Girard's trial, said the decision was "just what I expected-very good." In a banner-headline story, Tokyo's Asahi Evening News reported: "At no time since the signing of the San Francisco peace treaty have Japanese thought so kindly of the U.S. and the American ideal...
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...