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After a two-day court martial before five German judges, she was sentenced to be shot. By order of General von Sauberzweig, military governor of Brussels, the sentence was conveyed to her in secret the next day and she was executed the following morning...
Word came, early in June, that one Bennet J. Doty of Memphis, Tenn., legionnaire, had left the French lines in southern Syria where the Foreign Legion is campaigning against the Druse tribesmen. He had deserted his post before armed rebels. Last week Damascus courts martial eyed the facts that M. Doty's attitude was defiant, that his offense was so grave that its penalty is death, that desertions were becoming all too frequent in the Legion, that "home-sickness" is an insipid plea...
...under pressure. Of course M. Doty had on occasion been brave, had received the Croix de Guerre. So, although he had sacrificed his citizenship and the U. S. Government had no recourse against any decision it might render, and though the law of the Legion is unremitting, the courts martial considered it advisable to sentence defiant Deserter Doty to but eight years at hard labor. "His record of bravery...
...brief, to rule out this course because of its martial connotation or because it could become too cheap a part of modern education is unfair. The cogent argument against it is that which suggests this as another movement inward professionalizing the college. Yet it need not be quite that if it be a real part of the movement toward making military training less the professional study of the few and more an accessory knowledge of the many. Military life will continue to assume a professional status in the eyes of those who wish so to make it. But the tendency...
...quotes an active politician. Tukio Ozaki, to the effect that martial success has impeded true progress. It has given Japan a sense of security, of a security which can be only temporary, and thus has removed the incentive to build carefully in politics, education, or industry. He divides the period of awakening and westerrization into two parts, the one extending through the Russian war and fraught with apt imitation: the other since that time and significant of decline...