Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spacious, well-kept West Adams Heights still had the complacent look of the days when most of Los Angeles' aristocracy lived there. But the look was deceiving. In the Los Angeles courtroom of Superior Judge Thurmond Clarke last week some 250 of West Adams' residents stood at swords' points...
...their misery during the Japanese defense of Manila, Filipinos spoke the name of General Tomoyuki Yamashita as if it were blasphemous. When peace came and the "Tiger of Malaya" was brought to trial, they crowded the courtroom to stare. As they had expected, he looked like an ogre-a squat, shaven-headed, simian figure in a green uniform. When prosecution witnesses told of the raping, killing and burning which Manila had endured at Japanese hands, many in the audience guessed that the verdict would be quick and harsh...
...took notes, eyed pretty girl reporters in the gallery. He gave an interview to the Associated Press in which he defiantly proclaimed himself a "true paladin of my Führer" and declared that, if he had the choice, he would do the whole thing over again. Generally, his courtroom poise was much better than it had been twelve years ago, when Communist Georgi Dimitroff made a fool of him at the Reichstag fire trial...
...courtroom lights were dimmed for the first time since the trial started, and the defendants sat in semidarkness. Across a motion picture screen moved, in light and shadow, what veteran correspondents called the most terrible pictures of mass slaughter and torture they had ever seen. It was an endless stream of corpses-single corpses and small mountains of them, corpses lying still and corpses being carted away by bulldozers, corpses shrunk by starvation and corpses battered by boots or clubs, staring corpses and corpses which, miraculously, had still some life left in them and feebly moved about before the camera...
When the lights went up, the courtroom was silent. One of the defendants retched. In the gallery, someone muttered: "Oh, God, why can't we shoot the swine...