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...Corporal John Keith Waller, British Army, who deserted to Berlin's Eastern sector a year ago as a "fighter for peace" but returned to his unit in West Berlin last week, "fed up" with Communism. This week a British court-martial sentenced him to two years in jail...
Tension over Russia at this moment probably helps the Socialists stay in office. Britain accepts the necessity of preparing for war, but so dreads the prospect that she is determined that no action of hers shall in any way provoke war. People sense that Churchill, with his martial spirit and forthright ways, might somehow hasten a war. Churchill, sensing this mood, is careful in the House not to sound more warlike than the Socialists. His recent attack on the armament program flopped because of this attitude. He obviously thought that a 15-day call-up of reserves was inadequate...
Governor Baeza Alegria, who had ordered hundreds of arrests, was replaced by Air Force General Felipe Acedo Colunga, remembered as a ruthless court-martial prosecutor following the 1934 revolt of Asturian miners. Last week Barcelona shops opened, workmen went back to their jobs, and the 15,000 police wandered about the streets, weapons conspicuously visible...
Marshall has just returned from an inspection of courts-martial procedures in Korea...
...liberated the bandsmen from KP duty and other rear-area chores, ordered them to spend all their time making music-in the front lines whenever possible. The band's headquarters were moved up from the rear to a forward command post. In addition to the regular band for martial music, there is a 13-piece dance orchestra, a four-piece "hillbilly combo," an eight-piece Dixieland jazz group, a "novelty group" for European folk songs and classics...