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...Tauroggen after Prussia turned against the Corsican. With the Russian general sat a young Prussian aide, Karl von Clausewitz, author later on of the world's most famous book of military theory, On War. With Yorck sat a Major von Seydlitz. At first, there was talk of court-martial for Yorck, but when Prussia's War of Liberation against Napoleon began, he became a national hero, was made Count von Wartenburg...
There are a lot of extraneous elements creeping into the day's curriculum. Along with statistics classes taught to martial airs, we now have the zesty wit of Bob Wing probing to the depth of the case at hand. So far only in Company one has such individual initiative been displayed. From a general sizing up of war time responsibilities to putting hens on production schedules, Bob is sure to know and express the answer with deftness...
...Courts martial voted criminals' penalties for careless, crackpot boys; still there was reckless flying. Probably there was no universal cure for the problem children whom the Army calls hedgehoppers, the Navy flat-hatters...
Last fortnight Stittsworth's passenger, 2nd Lieut. Dean C. Fundingsland, was brought to trial. Because as senior officer aboard he had failed to stop his pilot's crazy flying, the court martial recommended that he be dismissed from the service. Last week the court martial heard Howard Stittsworth's case. It found him guilty of murder. Its recommendation: life imprisonment...
Died. 2nd Lieut. Beaufort George Swancutt, 31, handsome lady-killer of La Crosse, Wis., under death sentence by an Army court-martial for running amuck in Camp Anza (Calif.) Officers' Club and killing his fiancée and three others (TIME, March 20); by his own hand (hanged with a bed sheet); in San Francisco...