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TIME'S April 23 assertion that Douglas MacArthur was the only member of the Billy Mitchell court-martial who voted "not guilty" is one of those interesting little coincidences that must make the lives of your editorial researchers so thrilling...
However, in view of the oath that every member of a court-martial takes-not to "disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any members of the court-martial upon . . . the findings or sentence"-I am very curious as to the source of your information...
...after on-the-spot courts-martial, R.O.K. soldiers executed 187 alleged Communist collaborators at Shinwon, a village 40 miles southwest of Taegu. The legalized massacre was hushed up for a month, then a National Assembly committee investigated. Last week, President Syngman Rhee published the committee's report, took appropriate action. He fired his Minister of Defense, Sihn Sung Mo, Home Affairs, Chough Byong Ok, and Justice, Kim Jeum Yin, for their "responsibility" in the affair...
Solemnly and urgently, Premier Ala warned the Majlis that the country faced one of its "most critical and dangerous moments in history." He won parliamentary approval for his proclamation of martial law in seven areas of southern Iran...
...reporting a court-martial conviction last year, the Army's Stars & Stripes in Germany made what seemed a small mistake: it got the accused's middle initial wrong. The accused was Lieut. Colonel Richard F. Whitcomb, convicted of looting a requisitioned house in Germany (his conviction was later reversed). But in getting the story over the phone, Stars & Stripes put down Whitcomb's initial as "S." From that point on, the mistake grew to impressive proportions...