Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grotewohl's threats raised goose pimples throughout Western Germany. So did the martial look of East Germany's 65,000 well-armed "People's Police." Unlike EDC, an army on paper, East Germany's army has long been a fact. Lodged in barracks throughout the Soviet zone are 65,000 Communist "policemen" (average age: 19), organized into 24 "police service commands." Each command is the hard core of a fighting division, well trained by Red army officers in the use of tanks and heavy artillery. Last week the Reds announced that they will expand the People...
...Last week the Air Force softened its get-tough policy towards the stay-downers, canceled the court-martial sentence (of two years hard labor and dishonorable discharge) of ist Lieut. Verne Goodwin( TIME, April 28), allowed him to resign "under conditions other than honorable...
...ranking lackwit three months ago when a Communist newspaper in Germany published stolen excerpts from the indiscreet diary he kept as military attache at Moscow (Sample: "War! As soon as possible! Now!"). This week the Army began an official review of his literary habits. The Pentagon drew up court-martial charges against him for "improperly recording . . . and failing properly to safeguard classified military information...
...campus; Danie an obscure little swot. While Smuts rose like a rocket to become at the age of 31 a world-famed Boer War general, Malan studied theology under the protection of the Union Jack. His usual explanation of how he missed the fight: "There was martial law, and anyway the front was 500 miles away" (sometimes he makes it 700 miles). Jannie and Danie became lifelong public enemies. Smuts, who had fought the British, lived to become a British field marshal and one of the stout pillars of the British Commonwealth;* Malan, who never heard a shot fired...
...years ago just as he was about to be shipped home as "undesirable," walked into the Army C.I.D. office, flanked by three tough civilians. Good guess: Natskakula had been decoyed back into the Western zone, then grabbed by Army intelligence operatives. He was whisked through a U.S. court-martial, which sentenced him to a year and a half in jail and dishonorable discharge. While in East Berlin, Deserter Natskakula had starred briefly as a noble "peace fighter" who couldn't stand U.S. warmongering...