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Unperturbed, Colonel Kilian went right on fighting back, started a formal attempt to court-martial former Prosecutor Carroll for "maliciously instigating" his trial...
...Park Hotel, the most shocking Army scandal of World War II reached its climax last week. Grim and flushed, his green eyes squinting belligerently through steel-rimmed glasses, Colonel James A. Kilian, for 26 months commandant of the notorious 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield (England), heard an Army court-martial pronounce its verdict: not guilty of "knowingly" condoning the brutalities practiced in Lichfield's prison stockade, but guilty of "permitting" them. The sentence: a $500 fine, an official reprimand...
...Court-Martial the Prosecutor? The trials were a travesty on justice. Witnesses refused to testify; there were postponements, delays, finally transfer of the trials from London to Germany. At one point a court-martial president quit in disgust. So did Prosecutor Captain Earl J. Carroll...
...natures. Last week swirling inflation, caused by war's dislocations and Government ineptitude, spawned violence. Riot ruled Rio de Janeiro as angry mobs wrecked shops of profiteering merchants, smashed fancy movie theaters and battled police. Congress roared; at least one newspaper shouted for a strong man. This week martial law was declared and soldiers, guns in hand, patrolled the streets...
...about 17 days in a regular cycle, the colony moves its bivouac every night. Toward dusk one of the raiding columns loses its martial excitement, slows its pace. Then the raiders fall into a steady, plodding lockstep. At the far end of the column, up to 200 yards long, they clot together in a tight, solid mass. The news of the move spreads back to the previous bivouac. As raiders come in from forays in other directions, they turn and follow the plodding column...