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...Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high-blood-pressure cry for a court-martial. And from Mishawaka, Ind., Casketmaker Herman F. Kuhl, father of one of Patton's slapped soldiers, wrote his Congressman, forgiving the slap and promoting the slapper's pro motion. The prevailing Congressional opinon was that Patton, exactly like any other soldier, should stay where his superiors considered him most effective...
...cedars, French officers and helmeted Senegalese soldiers summarily arrested Lebanon's President Bechara El Khoury, Premier Riad Solh and his cabinet ministers. By the day's end, Parliament had been dissolved, a puppet regime led by Francophile ex-President Emile Eddé had been installed, newspapers banned, martial law and curfew imposed, troops posted in squares. Having ordered these measures, French Delegate General Jean Helleu leaned back, ready for the worst...
Captain Colman's ouster from the Army was ordered by Secretary of War Stimson, who was said to be outraged by the court-martial's cream-puff sentence. The ouster was made under Public Law 190, which authorizes "a more expeditious procedure to vitalize the active list." The procedure: a hearing before a board of five general officers. Colman's retired pay, fixed by law: $900 a year...
...members of the court-martial that punished an officer who shot a Negro soldier by merely changing his rank from colonel to captain...
...courts-martial sitting on the Selfridge Field cases worked down the defendants in rank, sentences rose in severity. The commanding colonel, William T. Colman got off lightest: demotion to captain (TIME, Sept. 27) for drunkenness and careless use of firearms in shooting a Negro private. A lieutenant colonel found guilty of drunkenness and fraudulent transfer of soldiers was ordered dismissed from the service. A major and a warrant officer also were sentenced to dismissal...