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...Marine MP invited him to watch from the officers' section, where he could see better. An officer introduced "Colonel Pitirim Nadski" to Brigadier General Omar T. Pfeiffer, chief of staff at Camp Pendleton. Pfeiffer and the colonel exchanged salutes and pleasantries. But when asked for his credentials, the colonel had none. He was politely whisked away for questioning. After two hours, he came clean; he was no Russian but Reporter John D'Alfonso of the San Diego Journal, wearing a uniform rented from a Hollywood costume shop. He had been assigned by his paper to test "security...
Then a German police car and a U.S. MP jeep arrived (they had been summoned by an indignant neighbor who had finally decided to inform the authorities of the goings-on at Frau Lehrte's). The Russian jerked himself erect. Forgetting his motorcycle, he walked off in the direction of the Soviet zone. But when he saw a second U.S. jeep pull up, he ducked behind a tree, raised his rifle and fired four quick shots. German and U.S. police flung themselves behind the parked cars; the Russian slipped away. A German policeman, wounded...
Through Berlin's U.S. sector, along the superhighway toward Potsdam, a limousine zoomed along at 65 m.p.h. (the U.S.-enforced speed limit is 20 m.p.h.). "It was going to beat hell," remarked an American MP later. A U.S. traffic patrol, consisting of a jeep and an armored car, promptly raced in pursuit. After a two-mile chase they overtook the limousine, leveled machine guns at it. Frantically the Russian driver pointed to the back seat and screamed: "Marshal! Marshal...
...with a master sergeant at the wheel, is waiting for him at the door. It rolls out the Embassy's tree-lined driveway past two sentry boxes at which two starched G.I.s come to attention; in the street the car is picked up by an escort of white MP jeeps. On the five-minute ride to work, MacArthur passes a sandlot where Japanese kids play baseball, a number of government buildings (some destroyed), the Sakurada Gate of the Imperial Palace, the green algae-covered Imperial moat. 'For the general, the traffic lights are always green...
...Army. In Tokyo, Pfc. William C. Smith, an MP on duty at the war crimes trials, contritely apologized for sticking chewing gum in former Premier Hideki Tojo's earphones...