Word: manila
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike men of many other U.S. outfits from Manila to Berlin, the marines took the peace in their stride: no mass meetings, no whimperings to be sent home. Proud Author McMillan tells what made "the old breed" different: "The men of the 1st Marine Division stood steady at their tasks, welded together in what seemed then a dignified silence by the same pervasive sense of discipline and of duty that had been the division's most evident characteristic...
Your just and discerning piece on the trial and execution of the Japanese General Yamashita [TIME, Nov. 7] is very commendable. This whole business is a black mark on American history. Those who, like me, were captives of the Japanese in Manila knew what was going on there and something of the measure of Yamashita's guilt as a "war criminal," and I think few of us approved the scant justice he received in his trial, or the ignominious fashion in which he was put to death...
...democratic American tutelage, the Philippines had been made safer for democracy than any other country in Asia; last week's national elections for a new President and Congress rudely upset that hope. Not everywhere were conditions as bad as in Occidental Negros Province; U.S. correspondents found that in Manila, the capital, balloting on the whole seemed to be honest. But in most other parts of the islands, the elections were marked by fraud, intimidation and violence...
...hearsay, two or three times removed. The prosecution showed a U.S. -propaganda film, Orders from Tokyo, in which a G.I. pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of a slain Japanese soldier, while the soundtrack intoned: "Orders from Tokyo. We have discovered the secret orders to destroy Manila." In fact, no such orders were ever found, as the defense demonstrated...
Yamashita was blamed for rape and murder committed in Manila by Japanese naval forces who were trapped and later wiped out by the Americans. It turned out that these forces were not under Yamashita's effective command. He was far away in the hills, and had lost touch with the units responsible for most of the outrages. Yamashita, in fact, reached the Philippines for the first time two days after the U.S. troops had landed at Leyte, and never did succeed in establishing contact with many of his units...