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...Army guardhouse somewhere in England, Negro Corporal Leroy Henry heard good news last week. A U.S. court martial had shocked Britons by condemning him to death for a somewhat doubtful case of rape (TIME, June 12). Overburdened General Dwight D. Eisenhower somehow found time to examine the record, found "many mitigating circumstances," ruled the evidence "insufficient" for the penalty, ordered the court to impose a lighter sentence...
Lili Marlene (Crown Film Unit; Universal), like many popular soldier songs, is far from martial. Its words (which are sung by a lonely girl and her lonely sentry sweetheart) were written in Hamburg in 1923. Its trivial, contagious tune† was made in the Germany of 1938. It was given its drawling lilt in a Berlin cabaret, by a Swedish singer named Lala Andersen (played by comely Pat Hughes), who is now in a concentration camp. (Reason: she wrote in a letter, "All I want is to get out of this horrible country...
...second time, Congress last week extended the deadline for filing of court-martial charges against Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter C. Short...
...southwest of Hawaii? If officers can spare time for Washington trips, why not for a trial? And if there is nothing to hide, why the stone wall against an investigation? The House Democrats & Republicans alike lined up behind Dewey Short's de mand that the Army & Navy start court-martial wheels turning within three months. The Senate voted a full year's delay, thus forcing a compromise at six months...
Last week the same soldier, a strapping Negro, stood, solemn-faced, before a court-martial of seven U.S. Army officers. Before the same court-martial had appeared the Bath lorry driver's wife. She said that the Negro had knocked and asked for directions to Bristol. She said that she walked down the road with him to show him the way. She said that he threatened her with a knife, lifted her over a wall and raped...