Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy Court of Inquiry. In a long, detailed and milky-mild document, the Navy three-man court made it clear why "Betty" Stark should at least share the blame with Kimmel...
...correspondent, staring at the scene from the Missouri's No. 2 turret, whispered: "I don't know what they're going to call this; I hope it won't be the 'Missouri Compromise.' " But there was no element of compromise in the surrender document, or in the ceremony...
...Shigemitsu, doffing his silk hat and peeling a yellow glove from his right hand, limped forward to sign the document and was assisted to a chair. With a blank, expressionless face he composed himself and signed. Umezu followed. He slowly drew off his white gloves and, without sitting, bent his stocky body forward and affixed the authority of the Japanese Army to the acknowledgment of total defeat...
...Japs clustered about and listened to the interpreter giving them their last instructions. [There was a moment of confusion while Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland straightened out signatures on the Japanese copy of the surrender document. Colonel L. Moore Cosgrave, who signed for Canada, had written on the wrong line. So had the French, Dutch and New Zealand signers who followed him.] The orders were placed in their hands and the Americans curtly gave them the signal to leave. They turned and departed as they had come. The shrill bosun's pipe followed their steps over the side-Shigemitsu...
...finally voiced this view was Paraguay's round-faced, Dutch-descended Juan Plate, Minister of Finance. Last week, fed up, Juan. Plate resigned, gave his reasons in an angry document addressed to President Higinio Morinigo. A copy got out to Montevideo, and Dutchman Plate's blast against the Army be came public property...