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First, after holding martial law over their heads for five weeks, he had the Assembly renew his presidency for an indefinite term (in violation of the constitution which required that the Assembly elect a new President by June 23). Rhee invited some moderates among the opposition to a party at a hot springs resort near Pusan, to talk over ways & means of compromising their difficulties. After the party, 37 of them were driven to the Assembly hall and furnished a silent, glum quorum while the 60-man pro-Rhee minority voted unanimously for their boss...
...cramped wardroom of Admiral Horatio Nelson's 187-year-old flagship Victory last week, a court martial sat in judgment on another British naval hero whose duty was dogged by domestic complications. Lieut. Commander Alastair Campbell Gillespie Mars, 37, had neither the rank nor the romantic inclinations of his great predecessor, but during World War II he was one of Britain's ace submarine commanders. His part in sinking some 30,000 tons of Axis shipping earned him both the D.S.O. and the D.S.C...
This week the day came when the Assembly, under the constitution, was supposed to elect a new President for a four-year term beginning next month. But with eleven Assemblymen in jail, others under constant police threat and the capital at Pusan under martial law (in defiance of an Assembly vote), Rhee's opponents boycotted the Assembly. Without a legal quorum, the Assembly voted, 60-to-0 with 37 abstentions, to keep Rhee in office until a new President is elected. Lacking a quorum the move was hardly legal, but it seemed nevertheless to leave Strongman Syngman...
Over 21. In Lichfield, England, during his trial for being AWOL, Private Cornelius C. Knight, 28, told the court-martial he had married a woman who told him she was 32 when she was really 51 and "I just went all to pieces...
...creating have in the state that was then the U.S.'s "enfant terrible"--Oklahoma. Governor Walton, backed by President Coolidge, had proclaimed martial law and forbidden the state legislature to meet while he was trying to curb the Klan's activities. Later the Corfu incident, the World Court, Philippines independence, and French separation of the Rhineland were to give the freshmen plenty to think about...