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...only a democratic marvel (in form) but also contained a renunciation of war. Labor organizations were set up and encouraged to assert their rights. War criminals were brought to trial. Several of them, on the brink of execution, thanked the U.S. for fair treatment. Ill-famed wartime Premier Hideki Tojo and 24 other top wrongdoers are awaiting sentence. Nobody in Japan, certainly no American, could be sure that these lessons would stick. But the score was impressive...
...Army. In Tokyo, Pfc. William C. Smith, an MP on duty at the war crimes trials, contritely apologized for sticking chewing gum in former Premier Hideki Tojo's earphones...
...when the time drew near for Hideki Tojo to take the stand last week, the atmosphere changed. It meant that the end was in sight. The defendants ate less. They strained for a look at Fujiyama. To see the sacred mountain at year's end meant luck...
Through Blewett's voice, Hideki Tojo spoke for all the defendants, and, in a sense, for millions.of Japanese. His defense was offense. He challenged not only the victors' right to try him and his fellows: he challenged the U.S. version of history. Japan, he said, had been forced into...
...think Tojo should be hanged. Now I don't know. If we had won we would have tried the Americans." Said another: "When you people have left these islands, the Japanese will again return to traditional worship of exalted human beings. First to be enshrined will be Hideki Tojo...