Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Army, keeping all names secret, told the tragic story and its aftermath. A general court-martial of seven colonels had tried the officer on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. He had chosen not to testify for himself. His counsel had argued that he acted irrationally under great emotional strain, that medical testimony left a reasonable doubt whether the sergeant died from bullets or from burning...
...Extreme Orient had more effect than the posters. In Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China, Japanese troops violated the last pretense of French sovereignty, * took full control over France's richest colony (rice, rubber, tin, coal). They arrested Vice-Admiral Jean Decoux, Vichy-appointed Governor General, promptly decreed martial law, a sunset-to-sunrise curfew. In Hanoi, Saigon (strategic harbor on the South China Sea) and other cities they disarmed French and Annamite garrisons. They formally proclaimed the "independence" of the Empire of Annam, province nearest the Philippines...
...enemies. The U.S. Senate was told that between 15,000 and 18,000 Canadian troops had thrown their rifles overboard. The damage was irreparable. We are doing what we can to offset it by repeating the denial and even releasing particulars of the one poor offender's court-martial and sentence, * but we cannot hope that this will counteract the further wanton damage done to our country...
Last week the same officers, on instructions from Major General Thompson Lawrence, reconsidered their stern sentence. While Senator Burt Wheeler demanded a Congressional inquiry, the court-martial reduced Weber's sentence to dishonorable discharge and life imprisonment. Said Weber morosely: "With a revolutionary mind you lose your place in the new society...
Died. Frank R. Reid, 65, onetime Congressman from Illinois (1923 to 1934), vigorous but unsuccessful defender of the late Brigadier General William ("Billy") Mitchell in the famed 1925 court-martial over General Mitchell's caustic criticism of the Army & Navy for a piddling aviation program; of a heart attack; in Aurora...