Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Lee Ho, Vice Chief of South Korea's Martial Law Headquarters, insisted that no one had yet been executed without due process of law. Civilians sentenced to death are supposed to be hanged, added Ho, "but we have found shooting by firing squad more convenient...
Retreat is contagious. Already some Korean civilians were leaving Seoul for the south, and the price of a truck ride to Pusan hovered around three million won ($700). President Syngman Rhee put his country, now facing invasion for the second time in six months, under martial...
...court martial for "misbehavior before the enemy" was swift and crushing. After a three-day trial at a command post 200 yards behind the front lines, Leon Gilbert became the first U.S. soldier in Korea sentenced to die for panicking under fire...
...liberation from the dual rule of the Russians and Kim II Sung, the people of the city had nothing to do. In the city hall, a former schoolteacher went falteringly about the business of pretending he was mayor. Two rickety sound trucks wheezed about the streets alternately playing martial music and exhorting the citizenry to get their city running again. But there was no evidence that anyone in town had any idea of what to do next or how to do it. Almost everyone who had held a position of responsibility before the liberation had fled north with the Communists...
...American takes no action, the Philippine Islands will soon be ripe for a successful Communist-becked popular uprising. The United States will then be forced to put down the revolt with American troops and to establish martial law, or to give up the twenty-three military, naval, and air bases she holds in the Islands...