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...Martial law was declared in Japan after fanatical junior Army officers assassinated three of Japan's leading statesmen (TIME, March 9). As a sign that martial law continues, the Divine Emperor and Son of Heaven, who prefers mufti, has been wearing nothing but military uniforms ever since. By his command an Extraordinary Court-Martial with unprecedented powers was set up under the presidency of General Count Juichi Terauchi, the new War Minister, to try the assassins. They were denied the right of being defended by lawyers, their trial was secret. Seventeen death sentences were furtively announced in the dead...
...first execution of a Japanese officer for political murder in 28 years. It occasioned no disturbance, no further outcropping of assassinations, and wary little Premier Koki Hirota felt safe last week in giving his firing squads some real work. According to the sentences of the divinely constituted court-martial, they were to shoot two infantry captains, a quartermaster captain, six infantry first lieutenants, an artillery first lieutenant, two infantry second lieutenants, an artillery and an engineer second lieutenant, a graduate of the Army Cadet School not yet commissioned and a retired Army officer-16 Army men, plus an eminent Japanese...
...Algiers, eager Communist and Socialist elements joined with Arabs in turbulent antics such as flinging stones at random among a junketing party of mayors from all parts of Algeria. Result: a proclamation of what amounted to martial law and further turbulence at Constantine and Oran. In Paris demonstrative war veterans filled the Champs Elysées with shouts of "Blum to the gallows!" and "Down with the Jews...
...Mary was no widow. Her husband, who had gone home to enlist as a private in Lee's Battery of Virginia Light Artillery, was fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the flower of Southern chivalry against the invading hordes of Yankee "nigger lovers." With the exception of one court-martial and two months in a Federal prison camp in 1865, little is known of Lucian Fletcher's Civil War record. His amatory progress after Appomattox, however, was crystal clear...
...case you cannot go to the "Pops" tonight, there are other opportunities on every ensuing night with music which is almost guaranteed to soothe the fevered mind. For example, there is "Pomp and Circumstance" on Friday evening, or if you are in a slightly less martial mood, the Peer Gynt Suite. For the die-hards, there is the "Bolero" on Saturday, and for those who are seriously inclined, Heinrich Gebhard is to play Liszt's "Second Piano Concerto" on Sunday evening...