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...sticky in Manila, but by 1 :30 in the afternoon crowds had completely jammed the big ballroom of the High Commissioner's residence. Outside, the MPs fingered their Tommy guns. Inside, the spectators coughed, shuffled their feet...
...Editor Ben Hibbs of the Saturday Evening Post came an angry cable from Manila. His foreign correspondent and associate editor, slight, gaunt-faced, 40-year-old Edgar Snow, had just learned that Chiang's Government had barred him from covering U.S. Marines' operations in China...
Nothing fascinates a Texan so much as 1) Texas; 2) another Texan. Thus, when news reached Austin a fortnight ago that the "Shooting Bull Detachment" of the "Texas Expeditionary Force" (both dreamed up by bored Texas flyers in Manila) had named Lone Star Governor Coke Stevenson CINCTEF, the homefolks called the whole thing mighty rich...
...their misery during the Japanese defense of Manila, Filipinos spoke the name of General Tomoyuki Yamashita as if it were blasphemous. When peace came and the "Tiger of Malaya" was brought to trial, they crowded the courtroom to stare. As they had expected, he looked like an ogre-a squat, shaven-headed, simian figure in a green uniform. When prosecution witnesses told of the raping, killing and burning which Manila had endured at Japanese hands, many in the audience guessed that the verdict would be quick and harsh...
...lack of precedent for war crimes trials, the vagueness of the charges-violation of the rules of war. The commission had other problems. What was Yamashita-a consummate liar or a victim of circumstance? What was to be his fate? The rope or the firing squad? Prison? Freedom? Manila waited for the answer...