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Lieut. John Wardle, commanding one of His Majesty's small (100-odd feet) motor minesweepers, was no Captain Bligh. Last week a Royal Court Martial sentenced Wardle to dismissal from his command and forfeiture of three months' seniority...
JERUSALEM, March 2-More than 250,000 Palestine Jews were put under the iron grip of martial law tonight as the British Army arrested 60 persons in the first, screening of suspects in yesterday's bloody series of bomb and gun attacks which claimed 21 lives...
...frontier with her northern Communist neighbors (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania). The Greek Left, as well as the Russian members of the Commission, promptly sought to divert the Commission's attention from the neighboring countries to Greece's tragic internal situation. The five Leftists, condemned by Greek Army court-martial of plotting rebellion against the King's Government, looked like the perfect bit of drama to accomplish just that (though they were in no way different from 121 Leftists executed before them, or the 46 scheduled to be executed after them...
Weaving through the Holyoke Street blast, Vag clutched the paper in his pocket, and, reassured, kept on up the street. He remembered when the long, heavy envelope had arrived. He'd looked at it suspiciously, noticing the return address. Dimly, in the background, he'd heard martial music playing as he extracted, in order, a small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail...
...Control Yuan. Like the President of the U.S., he will be commander in chief of all land, sea and air forces. He may promulgate laws when countersigned by the President of the Executive Yuan, and he will have power to conclude treaties, declare war, negotiate peace, declare martial law, and exercise emergency powers. The Legislative Yuan may review these acts within a month...