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...court called on the Defense Department to prepare a new rule of conduct for Americans who may some day, as prisoners, be called on to face the Red treatment. In a lengthy comment, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, the Corps commandant, did not quarrel with the court's finding in the individual case of Colonel Schwable. but he did attack the court's amazing generalization that under Red torture all prisoners must either confess or go mad or die. In Korea, there were many cases of tortured prisoners who did none of these. Said Shepherd: "Some found the strength...
...General Shepherd considered the court's recommendation that Red torture tactics called for a study of some new instructions to servicemen to replace the order that prisoners give no information other than name, rank and serial number...
Showing a good deal of journalistic know-how, the 'Poonsters have determined the trend of public sympathy. They have hit spring, and hit it hard. On the cover, somebody called Updike has drawn a parody of seventeenth century German wood cutting. Naturally, it depicts spring, and features a shepherd scattering what seem to be peanuts to indignant sheep and goats. With woodcut rampant on a green field, it is one of the best covers in a good while. In the editorial, too, Jester weighs the memory of faded beauties with the immediacy of a fine spring day, and the latter...
...roof peered towards the rude enclosure where the village's sheep were penned. He was the shepherd of Mishmar Ayalon, and the Sten gun his crook. Since 1951, six of Mishmar Ayalon's men had been killed by bullets out of the night. The villagers took to arms and appointed as their captain Shmuel Schiff, a wiry youth with a hussar mustache...
Subtle Torture. When Annapolisman Schwable returned to the U.S. after he was released. Marine Corps Commandant General Lemuel C. Shepherd, a first-class fighting man himself, pointedly refused to see or speak with him. But few of the colonel's fellow citizens allowed themselves so simple a reaction...