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...Girard & Justice...
...reference to the Girard case: may I offer my congratulations to Girard's Stateside lawyers, who seem more interested in gaining publicity than in gaining the best trial for their client; to braying Congressmen, who are more interested in "grassroots" support than in the welfare of their country. Finally, my morale will suffer not one whit if Girard is turned over to the Japanese courts. My pride in my country will, however...
...court's decision has no effect on Girard, since Girard, a serviceman, has no right to trial by U.S. civil courts. Point at issue in his case: whether under the status-of-forces agreement he should be tried by a U.S. court-martial or a Japanese court for allegedly killing a Japanese woman on a U.S. Army rifle range...
...uproar roared on. Colorado Republican Senator Gordon Allott proposed a bipartisan congressional investigation. District Court Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy directed U.S. authorities to show cause why Girard should not be returned to the U.S. "You're a national hero," Girard's brother told him by transpacific telephone from Ottawa. Whereupon Specialist Girard, who had won considerable public sympathy in Japan by virtue of having a Japanese fiancee, sacked his Japanese lawyer (selected by him and paid for from U.S. funds) and flirted with the idea of playing to the hilt the new role that his brother...
...status-of-forces agreements, in spite of the ruckus over Specialist Third Class Girard in Japan, are working out amazingly well. Status-of-forces agreements have contributed in six years of steady growth toward easing the tensions between allies, and have added up to a remarkable good-sense show of international justice from which the U.S. and its allies alike have benefited. One Girard case provides an uproar in the U.S. and Japan, for example, but 5,544 other U.S.-Japanese cases that came up last year worked out smoothly. Over a longer term, fewer than half a dozen...