Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the seizure of Hideki Tojo (TIME, Sept. 17), who bungled his attempt at suicide,* counter-intelligence officers began rounding up the other 39 on MacArthur's first list of criminals wanted...
...first list had been hastily compiled, apparently under pressure from the U.S. press. It included the name of Tojo and all his Cabinet (a few of whom might win acquittal) and assorted criminals at large: Lieut. General Masaharu Homma (the Bataan death march), Mark Lewis Streeter (U.S. civilian from Wake who wrote propaganda for Radio Tokyo), Jose Laurel (Filipino quisling), Joseph Meisinger (Gestapo "butcher of Warsaw...
...subsequent list of seven supposed members of the militaristic Black Dragon Society had to be revised rapidly. Two of the seven were dead, one of them since 1938. A third was not a member. A fourth name, that of onetime Premier Koki Hirota, who in 1936 signed the anti-Comintern pact, was removed without explanation...
...confusion did not betoken forgiveness or lack of determination. U.S. occupation forces were still inadequate. Compilation of names and evidence was divided between Chungking, Manila and Washington. It was not until after the first list had been released in Tokyo that the State, War and Navy Departments in Washington cabled their combined list to MacArthur...
...1860s, one Will F. Empey had a perch atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, there watched the comings & goings of sailing ships. The Guide, the broadsheet he got out to list each sailing, came to be the bible of West Coast seamen, called itself the oldest shipping paper in the U.S. The wartime ban on publishing ship movements should have been enough to put it out of business...