Word: martially
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...their newspapers carefully these days will note that the trials of Colonel James Kilian and other officials of the Tenth Replacement Depot at Lichfield, England, are still in progress, and it is dubious whether enlisted men familiar with the situation in 1944 have been comforted greatly by the courts-martial results thus...
...further precaution, the board outlined a series of reforms to assure enlisted men "more definite protection from the arbitrary acts of superiors." The Army's rickety military-justice machinery would be modified to include enlisted men as members of courts-martial; sentences would be progressively stiffened for higher ranks. To check up on abuses, the inspector general's office would be beefed up with additional investigators...
...Middle East's hottest issues, whereupon the court and guests proceeded to Marka airfield to review Trans-Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion. Its leader, Glubb Pasha (occidental title: Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, D.S.O., O.B.E.) stood next to His Majesty on the sun-scathed reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long sword by his side. After the two-hour parade, everybody had lunch (main course: 56 whole roast sheep), while Trans-Jordan's masses launched on a three-day fete involving much shooting, soothsaying, and the consumption of vast quantities of stuffed peppers...
From Yokohama to Nagasaki, Japanese last week hummed, whistled and sang Ringo No Uta (The Song of the Apple). It was Japan's first big sentimental song hit since 1941, when Japanese music went martial. Tokyo's radio station JOAK got 100 requests a day for it. It had sold 200,000 phonograph records and 50,000 copies of sheet music, and would have sold more if its publishers had had the materials. Even G.I.s hummed it. Apple's lyrics, translated...
...situation called for a court-martial -or a mediator. At week's end, a peacemaker stepped in. Lieut. Colonel A. Delbert Clark, Mediterranean theater public-relations officer and a former New York Timesman, became "senior officer" of Stars and Stripes. The censorship was called off, Major Kestler would stay. Colonel Clark promised that the newspaper would operate "in consonance with the highest standards of American journalism and the Army. . . ." Whether their war with the brass was over or not, staffers figured they had won a skirmish...