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...trial before a U.S. court-martial in London was Sergeant Judson H. Smith-one of twelve men charged with cruelty to G.I. prisoners in the guardhouse of the loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield. But last week, as the story of repeated brutalities (TIME, Dec. 31) continued to unfold, lowly Sergeant Smith became almost the forgotten man at his own trial. The accusing finger pointed higher & higher up the chain of command...
...spite of its similarities, this was no Nazi concentration camp, but the prison stockade of the U.S. Army's 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield, in England's Midlands. The victims of these brutalities were U.S. soldiers-most of them AWOL (often by the technicality of having overstayed a pass by a few hours); only a small proportion of them were guilty of more serious crimes...
...whole trial was a fact which everyone recognized. During the invasion of Europe, General "Ike" Eisenhower's combat divisions had been hampered by the shortage of replacements. Goldbricking was a threat to victory. Some of the G.I.s who landed in Lichfield as prisoners were suspected of trying to dodge combat. There was some reason for the Army to make Lichfield so tough that goldbrickers would prefer the front lines. Did that justify the kind of brutality that prosecution witnesses described...
Dogs and Dictionaries. Born (1709) "half-dead," infected with scrofula that almost ruined his eyes and disfigured him for life, Britain's future literary bull of Bashan was raised in the cathedral town of Lichfield, where his father was an impecunious bookseller. Moody, sensitive, strongwilled, young Sam was bitterly ashamed of his parents' struggle to make both ends meet. "Poor people's children," he insisted later, "never respect [their parents]: I did not respect my own mother, though I loved her: and one day, when in anger she called me a puppy, I asked if she knew what they called...
...score on bye-elections held since the resignation of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden two months ago now stands: two for the Opposition, one for the Government. The Opposition victories were hung up in West Fulham, outside London, and in Lichfield, onetime home of famed, blustering Dr. Samuel Johnson. In these contests, although Laborites and Liberals have rejected the idea of a "Popular Front" to oppose Prime Minister Chamberlain, the two parties fortunately managed to put but one candidate in the field. Last week anti-Chamberlain factions bewailed the fact that two Opposition candidates had split the Aylesbury field...