Word: commissioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reel quotes an Army lawyer's comment : "Under such a principle, I suppose, even MacArthur should be tried." . Objection. A military commission of five U.S. generals* sat in judgment on Yamashita. They had no legal background. The commission seemed to feel that defense objections, made for the record, wasted...
Implication. Urged on by a radiogram from MacArthur, the commission closed the trial a little more than a month after it began. By neat timing, they handed down their verdict on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. They found Yamashita guilty as charged, sentenced him to hang.
The U.S. stood firmly by its plan for international control, which last year was approved by a vast majority of U.N.'s General Assembly, the six Red-bloc nations dissenting. The plan provides for 1) a cooperative international agency to own and control all atomic energy, including production for...
The MDC has taken great pains to integrate the bridge with Harvard. It proposed to the Legislature that it be dedicated to Charles W. Eliot, 1853, president of the University between 1869 and 1909, and the Commission had its architects stress the Harvard motif throughout the design. The facing of...
The MDC is very pleased with the Eliot Bridge. Many top officials are Harvard graduates who remember Eliot as "the man who made Harvard what it is today." And Charles Eliot '82, son of the President, was one of three landscape architects who stirred up public pressure for preservation of...