Word: kilian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kilian indignantly denied knowledge of any beatings (except one) in the Lichfield stockade-where other witnesses had testified that the beatings were a regular, daily occurrence, carried out on Kilian's own orders. Once he flatly refused to answer a direct question, and the court cited him for contempt...
Half an hour late, in strode imperious Colonel James Alphonse Kilian, former commandant of the depot. In barrel-organ tones he demanded to see the order convening the court. The president banged his gavel to silence the belligerent witness. Kilian called for a comfortable chair- "one with arms on it if I have to sit here...
Fourteen times during five hours, the gavel was slammed to bring the witness to order. Once Kilian stretched, looked at the prosecutor and stuck out his tongue. Said a G.I. onlooker: "I'd like to see one of us act like that...
...Kilian's Hotel. Kilian, LoBuono went on, "said he thought someone higher up was gunning for him," and he meant Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee, head of ETO's service forces...
...prosecutor seized this opening: "Didn't Kilian suggest that the Lichfield policy was dictated by higher authorities?" LoBuono...