Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said: "My God, the government radio has just broadcast a declaration of war, but we can't find out against whom." Several hours later, the embassy was able to learn the facts: Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's Cabinet had proclaimed a state of siege and war - that is, martial law - in three islands dominated by the secessionist rebels who have set up what they call the Republic of the South Moluccas. Other revolts are already in progress in parts of northern Sumatra, Celebes, southern Borneo, and western and central Java. Some government officials admit in private that even with...
...George Eskdale; Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Franz Litschauer; Vanguard, 1 LP). This is a must. The soloist is brilliant London Trumpeter Eskdale, who amazed and delighted collectors when he recorded excerpts of the concerto some 20 years ago. His style is effortless, his tone is clear and martial, recalling a soldier preening himself in his full-dress uniform...
...Barney Greenwald's last-act defense of Navy discipline, insisted that the play supported the defense at the Nürnberg war criminals' trial: that subordinates are not responsible for the orders of their superiors. But most West Berliners accepted the lesson of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial as a common-sense American compromise between institutional rules and individual dignity. The Caine, like many another U.S. play, was doing a dramatic diplomatic job abroad that any Foreign Service man might envy...
LIEUTENANT Charles C. Ander son has been convicted by an Army general court-martial of mistreating trainees at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and dismissed from the service...
...U.S.O. shows. Part of his undeserved trouble can be blamed on the recently adopted Uniform Code of Military Justice which weakens the formal disciplinary powers of company-level officers and makes it necessary to punish any offense, if it is to be punished at all, at battalion-level court-martial. We hope that Lt. Anderson will be given a full and honest hearing. We will need men like him if the guns begin firing again...