Word: masaharu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo last week Mrs. Fujiko Homma, wife of Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, knew that she would soon be a widow. She had fought with quiet tenacity to save the General's life, had broken an ancient Japanese custom-according to which wives should be seen, not heard-by appearing in court and giving a newspaper interview in her husband's defense. With the submissive dignity of a Japanese lady, she related that she was his second wife, that she had borne him two children -a girl, now 18, and a boy now 16, both now attending school...
Your assertion in the Feb. 4 issue of TIME that Manuel Roxas is pro-American was as fantastic as Lieut. General Masaharu Homma's swearing that he is a humanitarian...
...final written statement before his execution, Yamashita seemed to hold no grudge, not even against the order stripping him of his uniform and medals (although no similar ignominy seemed to be planned for General Masaharu Homma, who had ordered the Death March). Wrote Yamashita...
...Manila this week, Japan's tall, suave Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, convicted of responsibility for the Bataan Death March, was given punishment to fit the crime. A U.S. military tribunal sentenced him to march to death-then decided, unlike the commission which decreed hanging for Yamashita, that death should be by firing squad...
...Manila trial of tall (6 ft.) Lieut. General Masaharu Homma added three new footnotes to history...