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...ranking lackwit three months ago when a Communist newspaper in Germany published stolen excerpts from the indiscreet diary he kept as military attache at Moscow (Sample: "War! As soon as possible! Now!"). This week the Army began an official review of his literary habits. The Pentagon drew up court-martial charges against him for "improperly recording . . . and failing properly to safeguard classified military information...
...campus; Danie an obscure little swot. While Smuts rose like a rocket to become at the age of 31 a world-famed Boer War general, Malan studied theology under the protection of the Union Jack. His usual explanation of how he missed the fight: "There was martial law, and anyway the front was 500 miles away" (sometimes he makes it 700 miles). Jannie and Danie became lifelong public enemies. Smuts, who had fought the British, lived to become a British field marshal and one of the stout pillars of the British Commonwealth;* Malan, who never heard a shot fired...
Pilot Goodwin's story was no isolated case. At Randolph Field, Texas and Mather Field, Calif, last week, twelve other officers (navigators, bombardiers and one pilot) were also facing courts-martial for refusing to fly. At bases all over the nation scores more were flying under bitter protest...
...first impulse was to throw the book at them. "A tempest in a teapot," snorted Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. But as the proportions of the trouble became apparent last week, Vandenberg flew out to Randolph for a first-hand checkup, ordered court martial proceedings dropped in the cases of two flyers...
...years ago just as he was about to be shipped home as "undesirable," walked into the Army C.I.D. office, flanked by three tough civilians. Good guess: Natskakula had been decoyed back into the Western zone, then grabbed by Army intelligence operatives. He was whisked through a U.S. court-martial, which sentenced him to a year and a half in jail and dishonorable discharge. While in East Berlin, Deserter Natskakula had starred briefly as a noble "peace fighter" who couldn't stand U.S. warmongering...