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...tribunal of U.S. officers, but not a court-martial, set up especially to try civilians for crimes against the military. Courts-martial try such offenders as three German soldiers who sneaked into U.S. lines in U.S. uniforms. Later they were caught, tried and shot as spies...
...Colonial Government proclaimed martial law in Little Kabylia, sent out punitive columns of Foreign Legionnaires, Senegalese and Moroccan troops. Artillery and aircraft smashed native villages. The new Algerian nationalist party, Amis du Manifeste ("Friends of the Manifesto"), was outlawed, its leaders arrested. The old Parti Populaire Algérien, whose slogan is "Algeria for the Algerians," was carefully watched...
...story develops, it becomes clear that the absent Benny is a five-star heel, whose only possible usefulness to the community is martial. This fact and the picture itself suddenly become interesting when a wire informs the small-town bigwigs that they had bred a hero: Benny has killed 100-odd Japanese, died in the act, and posthumously been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...
William ("Billy") Lendrum Mitchell, whose ardent advocacy of U.S. air power led to his court-martial for "insubordination" in 1926 and demotion from brigadier general to colonel, was posthumously voted (by the U.S. Senate) the Congressional Medal of Honor, promotion to the rank of major general...
...Army court-martial had sentenced the four, who were stationed at Lovell General Hospital, Fort Devens, Mass., to a year at hard labor and dishonorable discharge (TIME, April 2). No one denied that the four had disobeyed an officer, or that the trial had been fair. But on the basis of their testimony that they and other Negro WACs at Lovell had been victims of racial discrimination, the Negro press, Negro and radical leaders started a furious protest, loudly demanded an investigation...