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...what was happening to the millions of NKVD victims in Russia and China that we could be surprised at what had happened to our soldiers in Chinese prisons - that our military leaders proved their utter confusion by cold contempt toward the prisoners broken by the Reds, and by court-martial proceedings against these prisoners later...
...total sales figures to date are of heroic proportions: in all editions, some 3,000,000 Americans bought the novel; it sold more than 2,000,000 copies in Britain, and it has been translated into 17 foreign languages. The play based on the book, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, packed in Broadway theatergoers for two seasons and grossed about $2,500,000. The movie piled up a box office take of $12 million and is still going. Like many a giant industry, the Caine even spawned byproducts, e.g., the manufacture of "Queeg balls," modeled on the two steel bearings...
...week to defend himself against charges that he had consorted with the Chinese Communists while a prisoner of war in Korea, and had caused the deaths of three of his comrades (TIME, Aug. 22). Before him in the courtroom on Governors Island in New York Harbor sat a court-martial of three colonels, four lieutenant-colonels and a major; behind him, amid the rows of spectators, sat his mother...
Despite a parade of ten rebuttal witnesses from the prosecution (in all, 28 former P.W.s testified against him), Sergeant Gallagher remained calm. At week's end, the court-martial gave its verdict: guilty of the unpremeditated murder of both the sick men he put out into the snow, of the maltreatment-but not the murder-of the third man he had strung from the peg, guilty of collaborating with the enemy. The sentence was the maximum: confinement at hard labor "for the term of your natural life...
After the June 16 revolt against President Perón sputtered out, the singed strongman ordered 56 navy and air force officers tried by secret court martial. The sentences revealed last week were mild, considering that the prescribed penalty for rebellion by members of the armed forces is death. Seven revolt leaders, including Rear Admiral Samuel Toranzo Calderón, the alleged mastermind, were sentenced to life imprisonment, 30 others drew terms of from one to three years and the remaining 19 went free...