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Married. William S. Girard, 21, gawky U.S. Army Specialist Third Class, who set off an international legal battle over G.I. rights overseas by killing a Japanese woman in an Army firing area last January, and Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, pert Japanese divorcee; in the Camp Whittington chapel, 60 miles from Tokyo...
...Growing Job. In the U.S., too, the news was of a nation arguing its basic questions in terms of law and justice-the Girard case on the rights and responsibilities of U.S. servicemen overseas; the St. Lawrence power case on the role of the Senate is ratifying treaties. Greatest discussion of all was about where the Supreme Court ought to take its stand between individual rights and the needs of national and individual security in the times of the Communist cold war. There was praise and there was criticism for the Supreme Court (see below), but the great fact...
Restricted to Camp Whittington, 60 miles from Tokyo, slim, pompadoured Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, 21, parried newsmen with newly polished "no comments," posed for pictures with his fiancée, Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, kept in touch with his lawyers on both sides of the Pacific. As one of his ex-buddies put it, Girard was "learning to walk like a hero" in the growing light of worldwide publicity...
...light flared even brighter last week when in Washington a federal judge undertook to decide whether Girard should be tried by a U.S. or a Japanese court for the fatal shooting of a Japanese woman scrounging metal on an Army firing range (TIME. June 17). He was not attempting to pass on Girard's guilt or innocence, said District Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy. Nor was he assessing the relative merits of U.S. and Japanese justice. But since the Army admits that Girard was on duty when he fired the shot, the U.S. was in error when it waived...
...prestige in Japan and agreements covering some 49 friendly nations were at stake, Government lawyers, backed by an affidavit from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, quickly appealed to the Supreme Court what they called McGarraghy's "clearly wrong" injunction, bypassing the Appellate Court on grounds that the Girard case's "imperative public importance" demanded a speedy settlement. Their two-fold argument: 1) the Uniform Code of Military Justice permits the Pentagon to surrender jurisdiction to civil authority where it sees fit; 2) in international relations, i.e., the status-of-forces agreement with Japan, the U.S. executive branch...