United States v. Voorhees

I must dissent from the result reached by the majority.

II

Uniqueness characterizes the case before us here. First, it is unique in its irony. The accused officer, a lieutenant colonel, was once a high functionary in the system of censorship imposed by the Eighth Army in Korea. Now he has been sentenced to dismissal for an alleged defiance of the very Regulations it had previously been his duty to enforce. His book, “Korean Tales,” produced his present difficulties largely because of assertions contained in it to the effect that General MacArthur had been irresponsible in public statements…