Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embarrassed "Lichfield trials" at last produced the conviction of an officer. Before the court at Bad Nauheim, Lieut. Granville Cubage of Oklahoma City, accused of ordering "cruel and unusual" punishments on G.I. prisoners at the Lichneld Reinforcement Depot, had pleaded that higher officers were to blame. The court-martial fined him $250 and issued a reprimand. The wrist-slapping indicated that the heat was to be turned on the higher...
...their newspapers carefully these days will note that the trials of Colonel James Kilian and other officials of the Tenth Replacement Depot at Lichfield, England, are still in progress, and it is dubious whether enlisted men familiar with the situation in 1944 have been comforted greatly by the courts-martial results thus...
...time when the Army is valiantly striving to increase its enlistment totals, such an example of army justice can hardly be called a recruiting inducement. With the teen-age draft bill still under debate in Congress, it cannot conceivably strengthen the Army's case. What the courts-martial board decides, in the case of Colonel Kilian, now on trial, is yet to be seen. But those who saw some hope for democratization of the army with the apprehension of the top-ranking officers of the Tenth Depot have since realized their sadness, in observing the inequalities of the punishment meted...
...further precaution, the board outlined a series of reforms to assure enlisted men "more definite protection from the arbitrary acts of superiors." The Army's rickety military-justice machinery would be modified to include enlisted men as members of courts-martial; sentences would be progressively stiffened for higher ranks. To check up on abuses, the inspector general's office would be beefed up with additional investigators...
...Middle East's hottest issues, whereupon the court and guests proceeded to Marka airfield to review Trans-Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion. Its leader, Glubb Pasha (occidental title: Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, D.S.O., O.B.E.) stood next to His Majesty on the sun-scathed reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long sword by his side. After the two-hour parade, everybody had lunch (main course: 56 whole roast sheep), while Trans-Jordan's masses launched on a three-day fete involving much shooting, soothsaying, and the consumption of vast quantities of stuffed peppers...