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Seven officers of the Greek army strode into a dingy courtroom in Athens one day last week and took seats near a dirty brown wall under a painting of the Sacred Heart. With the clang of a big brass bell, a colonel called the court martial to order. In the front row, 29 defendants (seven of them women) smirked, joked, smiled at friends or relatives in the crowd. Despite their elaborate show of unconcern, the 29 were on trial for their lives. It was the biggest treason trial in any Western nation since the cold war began, and the first...
...approach to democracy ... rather silly in the light of modern life..." Do you mean it? UMT would subject men at the immature age of 18 to a training in obedience, lack of independent thinking, typical soldierly evasion of voluntary duties, and excessive respect for hierarchy. It subjects them to martial law, to which the Bill of Rights does not apply; a $10,000 fine and/or five years in prison, for disobeying the president or a superior officer...
...Strange Quiet. After Cairo's violence had run its course, with an estimated 62 dead, the Wafdist (Nationalist) cabinet finally bestirred itself. Its leaders went to the palace, and winning Farouk's approval, clapped all Cairo under martial law. Curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. was imposed; the press was put under censorship...
Taking office, Aly Maher surrounded himself with 'cabinet nonentities and kept for himself the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, confirming the impression that he has been instructed by Farouk to rule as a strong man. Under martial law, he is also military governor...
Last week the Royal Canadian Navy was redfaced and backing water. In naval barracks near Victoria, B.C., a court-martial sat in judgment on the surgeon lieutenant who called himself Joseph Cyr. He was charged with fraudulent entry into the navy because that was not his name: he had borrowed it, along with copies of medical credentials, from a real Joseph C. Cyr who practices in Grand Falls, N.B. The court's sentence: "Discharge with disgrace" (a shade less disgraceful than a "discharge with dishonor...