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Without Authority. Against Berman was pitted Marine Major Charles Sevier, 35, the chief prosecuting officer, a veteran of Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa, who describes himself as "a plain, unspectacular guy trying to do a job." Sevier's case: Drill Instructor McKeon was not authorized to take Platoon 71 into the marshes; his action was therefore criminal, and the fact that he had been drinking made it worse. Said Sevier to newsmen: "I have the greatest sympathy for D.I.s. They have a terribly tough job. But damn it, we try to maintain excellent discipline without brutality...
...hostility of Japan's neighbors." The U.S. did not help at all by letting it be known that it was greatly increasing its military aid to Japan, possibly by as much as 13 times, or by releasing a report on its land-requisitioning for military bases on Okinawa...
Japanese nationalists have been making much noise about Japanese landowners on Okinawa being dispossessed by U.S. forces. Under the San Francisco Peace Treaty, the U.S. got control of Okinawa and the Bonin Islands (Iwo Jima) for as long as it feels a military need to be there. As the election neared, the government tried to hop on the bandwagon by criticizing U.S. occupation policies too, but it was too late...
...With more than a third of the House in their hands, the Socialists can block any rearmament move, make trouble for U.S. occupation forces. Already, in the flush of victory, they banged the drums of anti-U.S. feeling. Some Japanese papers have been playing up Okinawa horror tales of G.I.s raping little girls and beating up farmers who resist land requisition, and of the U.S. taking farmers' little plots to build golf courses and expensive lawns for American occupiers. Socialists even suggest that if the U.S. would only return Okinawa, Russia might be induced to hand back...
...Vice Admiral Harry D. Felt's Sixth Fleet-soon to include the bristling guided-missile cruiser Canberra*-offering defense-in-depth to NATO's long, thin southern flank and imposing its stable strength on Middle Eastern foment. There, riding at anchor in the soft swell of Okinawa's Buckner Bay, is Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll's Seventh Fleet, ready to turn its carrier-keyed task force toward the first break in Asia's ominous calm (a calm that might well not exist were it not for the Seventh Fleet's presence). There, in drydock...