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FIVE GENTLEMEN OF JAPAN (373 pp.) -Frank Gibney-Farrar, Straus and Young...
...understood by the rest of the world. Prewar insularity, wartime brutality and postwar docility have confused even those who thought they were in the know. This week, in a crisp, lucid book called Five Gentlemen of Japan, the outward confusion is shaken down to meaningful comprehension. What Author Frank Gibney has tried for, and achieved, is a character analysis of the Japanese nation. He has succeeded-perhaps better than anyone else so far-in explaining how decent Japanese could become the brutes of Bataan and Manila, why they are now worthy of trust and important to the free world...
Overseas Rampage. Author Gibney reached Japan on his 21st birthday, Sept. 21, 1945. A Navy lieutenant with a command of the Japanese language, he was detailed to the job of interrogating prisoners of war. He remained less than a year before he was discharged, but in March 1949 he was back again as a correspondent for TIME & LIFE. His Five Gentlemen of Japan are real people: Emperor Hirohito; Fumio Shimizu, a wartime vice admiral, now an engineer; Tadao Yamazaki, a Tokyo newspaperman; Hideya Kisei, a steelworker; Sakaji Sanada, a farmer. In Author Gibney's hands, they are far more...
About four weeks after he had sent that cable, Gibney, injured when a bridge was blown up by the South Koreans, was writing a different kind of dispatch from Korea. He told of the North Koreans' smash across the 38th parallel, and described the pell-mell retreat of civilians from the capital...
Correspondent James Bell joined Gibney at the front at the end of July. Accompanying a Marine assault force in the Naktong area, Bell captured the horror and heroism of war in his story, The Battle of No Name Ridge (TIME, Aug. 28, 1950). In September, Bell was a member of a team of five TIME Inc. reporters and photographers who covered the Inchon landings. Gibney had landed earlier on Wolmi Island, and watched the Inchon assault "about one city block away." Shortly afterward, Gibney returned to the U.S. and was replaced by Martin...