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...window, retired to an inner room where he had already made hara-kiri preparations, ignominiously and hastily shot himself below the heart with a 32-calibre pistol. Given a 50-50 chance to live, he cried: "I want to die." His death would be only a beginning. In Manila Colonel Alva Carpenter was preparing a war-criminals list running into thousands of names. Prison-camp atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) spurred preparations for punishing the guilty. What ever the shortcomings of the U.S. Regular Army brass might be, lack of esprit de corps was not among them. The war-crimes provisions...
This kind of Richard Harding Davis journalism had been going on ever since Clark Lee had the good fortune to be sitting in the A.P.'s Manila office on Dec. 7, 1941. His father was an early president of U.P., but Clark went to work for the A.P. instead, worked first in Latin America, then in the Far East (where he married a Hawaiian princess, Liliuokalani Kawananakoa). Friends in the Japanese Army tipped him off in November 1941 that it was time to get out of Shanghai...
Having gotten as far as Manila, Clark Lee spent days in Bataan's front lines, sent in some of the Pacific war's first eye-witnessers-and some of the first enthusiastic stories of MacArthur's military genius. He got out to Australia just before MacArthur, came home to write a bestseller, They Call It Pacific, urging more guns and men in the East. This suited Willie Hearst's line: he hired Lee away from A.P. at a fat raise, but then packed him off to Europe. In the ETO, Lee was a fish...
Orders from Tokyo (Jap atrocities in Manila; TIME...
Orders from Tokyo (Jap atrocities in Manila; TIME...