Word: corregidor
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Testing anew the strength of his convictions. John David Provoo was cell-bound last week. His old trouble-treason -dated from the World War II surrender of Corregidor, when California-born U.S. Sergeant Provoo bowed deeply to his arriving captors, spoke to them in fluent Japanese, offered his humble services. A toadying informer, he bullied Americans, baked layer cakes for the Japanese, caused the execution of a U.S. captain. But after the war, the case was bungled in U.S. legal machinery, and Provoo's conviction was reversed on technical grounds by the Supreme Court. This time...
...June 4, 1942, and World War II in the Pacific was almost six months old. Pearl Harbor lay far behind, a symbol of heartbreaking disaster; Singapore had fallen, and so had Rangoon, and so had Corregidor. The U.S. fleet, though it had won a strategic edge, had been mauled, and the carrier Lexington sunk, in the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8). Japan was threatening Australia, and her ships scouted with impunity around the Indian Ocean and Ceylon. The U.S., a long way yet from the glory days of island landings, had to latch...
...what of Magsaysay's young crusaders? Chief among them is young (41) Manuel P. Manahan, an ex-newspaper publisher who organized the Magsaysay-for-President movement. During the war he served on Bataan and Corregidor, was imprisoned by the Japs at infamous Fort Santiago. Tall and stocky, Manuel Manahan has many of the mannerisms and some physical resemblance to the late President. He ran the President's pet project, the Complaints and Action Committee...
...Secretary of Defense; Pierre L'Enfant, the French-born engineer who designed the city of Washington, also served as a peacetime major in the Army engineers; Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, sometime lieutenant-colonel in the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War; General Jonathan Wainwright of Corregidor. On a brooding hillock General John J. Pershing lies in lonely aloofness. Another small knoll is occupied by the grave of Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur; near by, a plot is reserved for his son. Humbler graves reflect the grimness of war and the greatness of American history: "James Parks, born...
...Supreme Court put an end last week to a treason case that had been bungled from the beginning: the prosecution of ex-Sergeant John David Provoo, a Californian who took up Buddhism in his youth, lived in a Japanese monastery, later enlisted in the U.S. Army. Captured on Corregidor in 1942, at 25, he served the Japanese as a stool pigeon, according to his fellow prisoners, and brought about the execution of a U.S. captain. But the Army brought no charges after the war, and Provoo re-enlisted; it was 1949 before he was indicted for treason, and 1953 before...