Word: kilian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand, we have Colonel Kilian, commander of the Lichfield Reinforcement Depot, who was convicted ... of permitting brutalities at the camp [TIME, Sept. 9]. His punishment was a $500 fine and a letter of reprimand. . . . Even now he is up for promotion before the U.S. Congress...
Hail the conquering hero! What's a little fine? Next year Colonel Kilian Will be wearing stars that shine...
What is this? The American people are paying this bird Kilian. ... Is our Army, with its absence of moral accountability in the higher echelons, becoming more powerful than our Government...
Unperturbed, Colonel Kilian went right on fighting back, started a formal attempt to court-martial former Prosecutor Carroll for "maliciously instigating" his trial...
Last week, with only one junior officer still to be sentenced, the Army seemed ready to close its books on the case. At least two questions remained unanswered. Was the conviction of Kilian just a smokescreen to conceal a policy ordered from above? How far could a superior officer go in disclaiming the acts of his juniors? Editorialized the Washington Post: "Generals Yamashita and Homma were convicted. . . . Is the principle of a commander's responsibility for Japanese only...