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Wisdom & Wine. Before the court were the 1953 cases of Dorothy Krueger Smith and Clarice Covert. Mrs. Smith, daughter of wartime Army General Walter Krueger, was found guilty by a court-martial of stabbing her husband, an Army colonel, to death in their quarters in Japan. A court-martial convicted Mrs. Covert of the ax murder of her husband, an Air Force master sergeant, in England. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that their military convictions and life sentences for murder were valid, with Justices Tom Clark, Harold Burton, Stanley Reed. Sherman Minton and John Marshall Harlan in the majority...
...that the host nation agrees to give "sympathetic consideration" to requests for waiver in cases which the U.S. deems to be of "particular importance." As this works out, U.S. authorities usually ask allied countries to waive primary jurisdiction and to return American offenders to the mercies of U.S. courts-martial; usually the allies comply. Out of all the 14,394 G.I. offenses subject to foreign jurisdiction last year, the allies turned back 9,614 cases...
...remarkably low crime rate and one of the highest leniency rates in the world. Foreign court sentences are usually much lighter than U.S. sentences. Last year, for example, German newspapers hounded seven G.I.s accused of raping a 15-year-old girl, but they fell silent when a U.S. court-martial handed down four life sentences, three for 40 years; the maximum sentence under German law for first-offense rape is three years...
Most of Elgar's works have vanished from the repertory and the minds of audiences as completely as the faraway world they echoed. But his better compositions still speak for the England of fields and hedgerows as surely as the martial pieces spoke for the fading empire...
...press is still quick to smite down anything that seems to smack of colonialism (and anything white men do is likely to be interpreted as colonial), newspapers were less concerned with the broad, strategic repercussions of the riots than with their ostensible cause: the acquittal by a U.S. court-martial of a G.I. charged with killing a Chinese. The extra- territorial privileges enjoyed by American citizens on Formosa are "unendurable," said Singapore's leading Chinese daily, anti-Communist Sin Chew Jit Poh. Manila's biggest paper, the Sunday Times, agreed that this was "the root cause of trouble...