Word: lichfield
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...Lichfield case [TIME, Dec. 31] is only the beginning. Keep probing, TIME. If the men accused are guilty let us look to the war crimes trial for our precedent. Who is the more guilty: the soldier who tortures his comrades or the soldier who starves his enemies...
...dingy courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square was crowded with G.I.s. On its 48th day, the trial of a prison guard from the U.S. Army's loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield was still a big attraction for men who remembered the planned brutalities, the beatings, the dosing with castor oil, which had made Lichfield infamous (TIME...
...memories of G.I.s the institution (100 miles southwest of Paris) was the "Continental Stockade." Whether they had suffered its rigors while confined for offenses against military law, or whether they had merely observed them from the outside, the men agreed that it had been tough-like Lichfield, England (TIME, Dec. 31, Jan. 14). There was no question that the Army's policy had been to make detention so uncomfortable that the prisoners would prefer combat duty; the question now was whether the Continental Stockade had been so tough as to defeat the Army's purpose...
...Didn't he suggest that the conditions at Lichfield were well known to higher headquarters. . . ?" LoBuono: "Something like that...
...prosecutor seized this opening: "Didn't Kilian suggest that the Lichfield policy was dictated by higher authorities?" LoBuono...