Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officer then read an article of war which stated that refusal to obey the command of a superior would bring "death or such other penalty as a court-martial may direct. Billings was told by the officer in charge, "Private Billings, I hereby give you a direct order to affix your fingerprints to this record of your induction." He refused, was taken off to the guardhouse, and held for courtmartial...
Seven officers of the Greek army strode into a dingy courtroom in Athens one day last week and took seats near a dirty brown wall under a painting of the Sacred Heart. With the clang of a big brass bell, a colonel called the court martial to order. In the front row, 29 defendants (seven of them women) smirked, joked, smiled at friends or relatives in the crowd. Despite their elaborate show of unconcern, the 29 were on trial for their lives. It was the biggest treason trial in any Western nation since the cold war began, and the first...
...Greek government guessed that the trial, a court-martial instead of a civil proceeding under terms of a 1936 Greek law, would last a month. It would prove "highly instructive," promised Interior Minister Constantine Rendis, "to all countries which have not so far experienced the activities of an ... organization which is called a political party but is, in actual fact, a fanatic and disciplined enemy army...
...approach to democracy ... rather silly in the light of modern life..." Do you mean it? UMT would subject men at the immature age of 18 to a training in obedience, lack of independent thinking, typical soldierly evasion of voluntary duties, and excessive respect for hierarchy. It subjects them to martial law, to which the Bill of Rights does not apply; a $10,000 fine and/or five years in prison, for disobeying the president or a superior officer...
Taking office, Aly Maher surrounded himself with 'cabinet nonentities and kept for himself the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, confirming the impression that he has been instructed by Farouk to rule as a strong man. Under martial law, he is also military governor...