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...going on Cheju. Its white mountain and green valleys were as beautiful as reported, he cabled, and three grassy, fenced-off holes in the ground-whence Ko, Yang and Pu supposedly had come-were still being tended and revered in a small park (not far from a more recent Jap-built air-raid shelter). In recent centuries a permanent male population had been established on the island, but women still outnumbered the men. The old native description of the island-"Too much wind, too much rock, too much woman"-still applied, though a male revolution was on the march...
...Jap villagers of Kawaidani needed a new primary school in 1926, but they hardly had a yen to their name. Somebody suggested that if they saved all the money they blew on sake they could have schools aplenty. Last week, after 20 years of self-imposed prohibition, 310 Kawaidani farmers counted up their savings. They had piled up 2½ million yen-enough to build several schools. Their duty done, a new school opened, the village's entire population leaped off the wagon together...
...legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels...
...come, too, to sell Manuel Roxas, and unsell the notion, widely propagated by U.S. Communists and proCommunists, that he carried a collaborationist taint from serving in a Jap puppet government. With him he brought the testimonial of General Douglas MacArthur, who said "consistently anti-Japanese . . . during . . . Bataan and Corregidor. . . . One of my most trusted and devoted officers." Then U.S. Navy Commander Charles ("Chick") Parsons gave conclusive evidence of Roxas' loyalty. He told of submarine trips he had made to contact Roxas during the Japanese occupation and to appoint him ringleader of U.S. espionage...
...Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan was pushing a sober trial of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." But Prosecutor Kee nan (who looks like W. C. Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with an American stenographer. Hiroshi Oshima, wartime ambassador to Germany, affected the dandy, with white pocket handkerchief, smart bow tie and black-ribboned pince...