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...Barney Greenwald's last-act defense of Navy discipline, insisted that the play supported the defense at the Nürnberg war criminals' trial: that subordinates are not responsible for the orders of their superiors. But most West Berliners accepted the lesson of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial as a common-sense American compromise between institutional rules and individual dignity. The Caine, like many another U.S. play, was doing a dramatic diplomatic job abroad that any Foreign Service man might envy...
LIEUTENANT Charles C. Ander son has been convicted by an Army general court-martial of mistreating trainees at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and dismissed from the service...
...U.S.O. shows. Part of his undeserved trouble can be blamed on the recently adopted Uniform Code of Military Justice which weakens the formal disciplinary powers of company-level officers and makes it necessary to punish any offense, if it is to be punished at all, at battalion-level court-martial. We hope that Lt. Anderson will be given a full and honest hearing. We will need men like him if the guns begin firing again...
Arts in the Cabinet. Viewers were treated to a better-than-average week of pure entertainment. Jack Benny, playing the part of the New York Giants' Shortstop Alvin Dark, co-starred with Giant Manager Leo Durocher in a parody of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. But the mutiny (Benny takes over the management of the Giants during the World Series) was a good deal funnier than the court-martial. ABC's Disneyland scored another ten-strike with a show devoted to Donald Duck from his inception until his final glowering flowering. CBS's Ed Murrow had another...
...Washington last week, the Army threw out its charges against Lieut. Colonel Melvin Voorhees, former Eighth Army chief censor and public-information officer (TIME, March 2, 1953). Reservist Voorhees, who had been ordered dismissed from the service without pay or allowances, had been convicted by a court-martial of failing to clear his book, Korean Tales, which criticized both the Army's handling of the Korean war and the newsmen who covered...