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...poetry: T. S. Eliot always seems to be lurking somewhere between the lines. The two non-fictional articles are examples of just what the magazine should keep doing. They are unique, not available to the national magazines. The long account of Kangaroo Island, by Stanley Geist, describes this Pacific Lichfield calmly and contemplatively. Luckily, he avoided merely giving the reader a sadistic thrill, and instead analyzes the sociological reasons for the brutality, though sometimes as the price of being dull...
...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...
...Shoot a Prisoner." Similar cynicism had long echoed in the U.S. among civilians and G.I.s alike. Since the trials of 16 guards and camp officers began last December (TIME, Dec. 31 et seq.), they had listened, appalled, to the grim testimony of former Lichfield prisoners. Men had been beaten there with fists and rifle butts till they were unconscious, then revived and ordered to clean up their own blood. Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were...
...partial justification for Lichfield's "get-tough" policy, Army apologists had pointed out that many of the prisoners were combat dodgers. At a time when the need for replacements in Europe was critical, the best way to get them back to duty was to make the guardhouse so tough that they would prefer the front lines. But many of the 6,000 prisoners who passed through Lichfield's stockade were minor offenders-AWOLs by only a few hours...
Also convicted in Bad Nauheim last week was Lichfield prosecution witness Fred C. Moore, a Negro private. For pummeling a German civilian who, he said, was caught rifling his billet, Private Moore was fined $180, sentenced to six months at hard labor...