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Meanwhile, Gomulka & Co. have issued a handy decree setting up courts-martial (no appeal, sentences executed in 24 hours, penalties from one year in prison to death) for all crimes against public security, public order or the economic interests of the state...
From behind the thick-lensed glasses that give him a Martian rather than a martial appearance, Military Expert Fletcher Pratt last week shot a pained backward look at the war he had helped to report. Critic H. L. Mencken, who only knew what he read in the papers, had called its war correspondents "a sorry lot" (TIME, Jan. 14). Expert Pratt, a correspondent himself, is convinced that World War II "was very nearly the worst reported war in history." But he turned the blame elsewhere...
...were confiscated. At the provost marshal's office the bewildered priest was grilled for the names of his benefactors. The Engineer lieutenant and two enlisted men, awaiting a ship at Nagoya to take them home for Christmas, were ordered back to Matsuyama for an investigation and possible court-martial. The entire Engineer Battalion was restricted...
...Secure the Peace." Tardily, after the unsoldierly hubbub of homesick G.I.s had reached a stage of near-mutiny (TIME, Jan. 21), Chief of Staff Eisenhower had forbidden any more soldiers' demonstrations on pain of court-martial. Now he told why he had put the brakes on demobilization and thus touched off the rumpus...
...Meal a Day. Elected President in 1941, Lescot fitted smoothly into the prevailing Haitian pattern of power. In the poorest, most overcrowded of Latin American republics, a wealthy mulatto elite ruled an ocean of pure blacks. Lescot ran the country under martial law, throttled the press. But even among the elite his popularity began to fade when he allowed his sons too flagrantly to acquire expropriated German property. The elite moreover became convinced that he had lost official U.S. favor. He was also identified with the ill-starred, U.S.-financed rubber-production scheme, which fizzled out in Haiti before...