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...Pusan courtroom, nine of Rhee's army officers put Assemblyman Suh Min Ho on trial, accused him of murdering a South Korean army captain. Suh's lawyer told the court-martial that his client had shot in self-defense and had been acquitted by the Assembly. Suh is not very popular with South Korean army brass since he brought to light a half-million-dollar embezzlement scandal in Rhee's army...
First, he declared a state of martial law. Next, he had his police jail eleven National Assembly members whom he accused of being involved in a Communist plot, seize a twelfth on a murder charge, and arrest eleven citizens on a charge of plotting to assassinate him. The actions brought stern rebukes from a U.N. commission in Korea and the U.S. Embassy, and a flying visit from Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet. Said Rhee blandly: "There is no connection between politics and the arrest of the Assemblymen . . . The arrests will continue." Vice President Kim Sung Soo resigned in protest...
...many students, and police, in Cambridge have witnessed martial law and the reading of the Riot Act in other less tranquil parts of the world? And how many have witnessed the ensuing struggle when hoodlums will not heed such measures to maintain law and order? I can vouch that defensive tactics used by the authorities are essentially similar to those used last night, the main difference being that the police normally use such methods to prevent injury from crudely armed hoodlums, not only to themselves but to the law-abiding public. Were I to ask a witness of last nights...
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...