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This system would do more to improve the educational lot of ROTC students than any amount of "liberalization" along military lines. The faculty should not allow martial loyal ties and pleasant memories of service days to interfere with its duty toward the aims of liberal education...
...that soldiering itself is an uncouth and unnecessary profession, ill-suited to a nation that has not waged war since 1864.* Item: last year a veteran sergeant major who offended his rookies by using "rude and indecent language" was beaten badly by ten of his men. From a court martial he got 30 days, the attackers got only reprimands. Last week's rebels confidently expected to get off as lightly, for in Danish eyes their actions, though illegal, were "understandable...
...charges of: 1) failing to clear the book with the Army, 2) "willfully disobeying" a superior who had ordered him to withdraw the manuscript (TIME, Nov. 10). Last week, after two weeks of testimony, Reservist Voorhees was found guilty on both major counts by a seven-officer court martial. The sentence, subject to automatic review: dismissal from the Army...
...buys a Captain's uniform, storms into Koepenick, and seizes the Town Hall. Always jibing at stuffy authoritarian, the ersatz Captain imprisons even Mayor Obermculler, a stout buffoon played by Max Guelstorff. The mayor knows nothing of his offense, but there can be no injustice under Germany's martial law and order. He salutes and plods to jail...
...Army did little about the case until church groups in the U.S. kicked up a ruckus (TIME, Feb. 2). Goff was first charged with "unpremeditated murder," but because the court-martial could not decide which man had struck the fatal blow, Goff was convicted on the charge of "aggravated assault." Even with the lighter charge, he could have drawn a prison term of five years, but the court was lenient. Why did Goff get off so lightly? "That information," said a legal officer, "is in the bosom of the court...