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...Quiet and inoffensive" was the way his commanding officer had described Corporal Frank Aldrich. Yet Aldrich stood last week before a U.S. Army court-martial charged with murdering two Chinese soldiers on his wedding eve. The story told in court began with a bachelor brawl. Aldrich and three pals wandered around Nanking in a jeep, chased a couple of Chinese girls, and then stopped on the Chungho Bridge. "Hello!" said Aldrich thickly to some Chinese youths perched on the bridge rail. Chinese Air Force Corpsmen Wong Shou-pen and Ke Fating did not seem to understand the greeting. Suddenly Corporal...
Questions for the Sages. In the auditorium of Nanking's Officers' Moral Endeavor Association last week, Chinese witnesses and the dead men's kin were doing their best to help the court-martial try Corporal Aldrich. U.S. authorities hoped the Chinese would be impressed with the fairness and exactness of American justice. But the Chinese frankly found the procedure somewhat opaque...
Custer's wife was then at Fort Riley. When Custer, leading an Indian-hunting expedition in the field, heard of the cholera outbreak, he promptly rode off from his cavalry regiment and hastened to the fort. That led to a court-martial and thorough humiliation of the high-strung young officer. His trial brought out other charges. He had once abandoned a detachment of his troops to annihilation by Indians (an unpardonable sin in the Army's Indian-fighting code). Custer was sentenced to loss of rank and pay for one year. Dr. Hawley's analysis...
Last week the court-martial acquitted Little of all charges. But the case did not die there. Some veterans' organizations raised the familiar charge that Navy courts-martial have one brand of justice for enlisted men and another for fellow officers. West Virginia's Senator Harley M. Kilgore and New York's Democratic Representative Donald O'Toole demanded that the secret record of the proceedings be opened up for congressional inspection. Said Kilgore: "Such [secret] trials may be necessary in wartime, but they certainly are contrary to our peacetime ideas of justice...
...king kept his pretty women in a palace over there and his plain women in a palace over on this side. Why he did this I never learned, for just then came a sound that I had learned too well -feet marching in military cadence to a martial song...