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...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...
...though thousands around him died during the Death March, in a stinking prison ship, in a Manchurian prison camp. Last week he took the witness chair in the big Manila ballroom where cool, suave Japanese General Masaharu Homma is on trial for his life. Talking quietly and precisely, as befitted his 28 years of service, Jimmy Baldassare became the first witness to link Homma to the infamous Death March...
...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...