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MacArthur was gone to a higher command. The Japanese General Homma, licked to a standstill and dead by his own hand, was a handful of ashes in a bedizened shrine. His successor, pot-bellied General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, faced a classic U.S. cavalryman: lean, dashing Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who had been promoted to Lieutenant General to fill Douglas MacArthur's man-size shoes...
...that the conqueror was surrounded, the men of the battalion alone among silent enemies, and no man might relax his guard for even a moment. If he did, he disappeared, and some snowdrift received his body. If he went alone to a woman, he disappeared. ... If he drank, he disappeared...
...German Ambassador to Tokyo. But he probably would not know why this foreigner's tone was so cordial, his eye so gleamy, his smile so quick. He would not know why General Ott was so warm whenever he mentioned the name of Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the conqueror of Singapore, the hero of this day of days...
...Power. "If any advanced country had thousands of able-bodied farmers and skilled factory hands to send into the Ukraine, it would be a marvelous investment for a conqueror. As things stand now, tens of thousands of men have been taken away by the Russians...
...matter had first to be attended to. He hastened to Yasukuni shrine, attended the deification ceremonies for 15,000 war dead newly fallen in China. He stopped, too, to pray briefly at the shrine of Emperor Meiji, founder of the Empire, and at the shrine of Admiral Togo, conqueror of the Russians...