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Fairman thus said that it was a mistake for President Ensenhower arbitrarily to proclaim a state of mock martial law during the Civil Defense "Operation Alert" last June...
...President could not operate under existing legislation, the attorney general decided upon "limited martial law." It would provide a bridge between state and national government, Fairman said...
Whatever the answers, says the judge advocate on the eve of the court-martial, "they'll know we asked the questions"; and in asking them, and simultaneously asking the audience to do some thinking, Time Limit! contrives a nice, new twist for a thriller. With the help of a good cast and production, it also provides much that is vibrant and tense. If the play has its shortcomings, the chief reason is the old have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too one. Time Limit! tries to be exciting and significant by turns, rather than the one by means...
...will say of Washington. For a 1000 Leagues have nearly the same Effect with 1000 Years. The feeble Voice of those groveling Passions cannot extend so far either in Time or Distance. At present I enjoy that Pleasure for you: as I frequently hear the old Generals of this martial Country, (who study the Maps, and mark upon them all your Operations) speak with sincere Approbation and great Applause of your Conduct [as] one of the greatest Captains...
...French military secrets that it ran across in September 1894. Historian Chapman ably retells the story of how, with a few slipshod handwriting comparisons, a War Office clique decided that studious, impersonable. wealthy and unpopular Captain Alfred Dreyfus was the logical culprit. Author Chapman argues that Dreyfus' court-martial and imprisonment at Devil's Island were mostly a tragedy of honest errors, not a conspiracy of racial malice...