Word: martially
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...every war on every side, there are two kinds of court martial. When a traitor or foreign agent of real importance has been caught he is tried briefly and behind closed doors and then taken out and quietly shot...
Valuable psychologically, is another type of court martial in which a minor offender whose guilt is unquestionable, or one whose arrest brings important foreign repercussions, is brought to trial in a full blaze of publicity complete with defense attorneys and sheafs of copy paper in the press box, to show that justice and mercy still exist on whichever side is holding the trial...
...dusty golden city of Salamanca, capital of Francisco Franco, last week was held a prize example of Court Martial Type No. 2. Star defendant was tall, ash-blond Harold E. Dahl, 28, of Champaign, Ill., a mercenary who enlisted with the Leftists for a promised $1,500 a week, was shot down into a nest of Moorish troops while on a bombing raid three months ago. Because Flyer Dahl was the first U. S. aviator known to have been caught alive, because his blonde wife, Edith, crooner on the French Riviera, had sent a photograph of herself to El Caudillo...
...Manhattan he found that it was not extraordinary for horses to be ridden into hotels; for the air to be filled day and night with loud martial music; for giant firecrackers with sputtering fuses to appear in the streets and in department stores; for substantial visitors from out of town to sleep shoeless in the lobbies of big hotels, or drunken on marble floors. To an Englishman used to trim and efficient bobbies, it was astonishing to see the police of a city famous for its traffic control forced to stand aside while paunchy men in blue uniforms stood...
...Provinces and their capital cities are governed by "Civil Governors," who are actually military governors appointed by General Franco. Minor local officials, if they are not known Reds, generally keep their jobs in captured territory if they behave themselves. As in Leftist Spain, Rightist Spain's law is martial. On both sides firing squads still produce many casualties. On both sides, too, almost sure death awaits anyone unlucky enough to witness an execution, even by accident...