Word: martially
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These hit-&-run raids did not satisfy the West Coast. The Coast was not scared, not angry, but anxious. Westerners have a tradition of meeting violence with quicker vengeance. From the West Coast a cry went up: "Give us martial...
West Coast citizens knew that martial law would mean loss of their civil liberties, but they wanted it anyhow. They feared the Japs in their midst...
California's Attorney General Earl Warren last week said he favored martial law. Under martial law, Nisei as well as alien Japanese could be removed from defense areas. Mayor Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles did not want martial law. The Federal Government, he said, has been lax in dealing with the alien problem. He suggested that Western States move enemy aliens and Nisei to inland farms. A committee of West Coast Congressmen thought that some useful aliens could be licensed, allowed to stay...
...executive order restored to Army courts the power (revoked in peacetime) to impose death sentences in court-martial proceedings...
...Stimson to let them retire from their country's service. If the President, on the secretaries' recommendation, said yes, each would get a life pension of $6,000 a year. If he decided instead to dismiss them outright, the.y would have to be vindicated by a court-martial before they could claim their retirement pay. Both the Army and the Navy hoped that their request would be granted. Both services felt that the scapegoats had been pelted enough...