Word: martially
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Feeling not at all sure that it could count on the West, Israel battened down its hatches for trouble. It wanted peace but feared to sound weak, and stuck to its martial air in the week when the U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned it for the fourth "flagrant violation" of the Palestine armistice in three years...
Regarding your Dec. 26 review of The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell: throughout the years I've read Emile Gauvreau's and Lester Cohen's Billy Mitchell, Isaac Don Levine's Mitchell: Pioneer of Air Power and others. I do not recall any more than an unsubstantiated rumor that MacArthur voted for acquittal...
...other hand, it would be difficult to build a play around a man with no better justification. As it is, the gradual discovery of the major's true reasons makes excellent drama. Even a coincidence reminiscent of Hollywood--the general in charge of the major's court-martial had a son in the same prison compound--does not seem too obtrusive...
...film, the script-writer can hardly be blamed. The affair began in 1894, when some secret French defense plans leaked into German hands. The commanders of the French army picked Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the only Jew on the General Staff, to take the blame, and after and absurd court-martial sent him to Devil's Island. Eventually, of course, the novelist Emile Zola came to his aid, with the result that the Captain finally received his freedom and the award of a Legion of Honor for all his pains...
...production of Fair Play, the Army got an unmerciful going over. James Gregory, a sad-sack private accused of murdering a girl, is defended by idealistic young Lieut. Dewey Martin, who is soon convinced that his client is being framed by a pair of villainous MPs. The court-martial is as farcically one-sided as if it were being run by Judge Lynch himself. When Martin protests, he is placed under barracks arrest. In the last five minutes of the play, this monstrous parody of justice turns out to have been only a bureaucratic bungle: Gregory is cleared, Martin warmly...