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...Iron discipline and courts-martial are no longer of any avail...
...Army's troubled history of race relations, an army court-martial wrote one more entry. The court found four Negro WACs guilty of refusing to obey a superior's command...
...Virtual martial law for the entire home land...
...Extreme Orient had more effect than the posters. In Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China, Japanese troops violated the last pretense of French sovereignty, * took full control over France's richest colony (rice, rubber, tin, coal). They arrested Vice-Admiral Jean Decoux, Vichy-appointed Governor General, promptly decreed martial law, a sunset-to-sunrise curfew. In Hanoi, Saigon (strategic harbor on the South China Sea) and other cities they disarmed French and Annamite garrisons. They formally proclaimed the "independence" of the Empire of Annam, province nearest the Philippines...
...enemies. The U.S. Senate was told that between 15,000 and 18,000 Canadian troops had thrown their rifles overboard. The damage was irreparable. We are doing what we can to offset it by repeating the denial and even releasing particulars of the one poor offender's court-martial and sentence, * but we cannot hope that this will counteract the further wanton damage done to our country...