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...like many in other languages, is so weighed down with archaic language that some sections make sense only to scholars. Last week a new translation of the New Testament went on sale, advertised to make the Bible understandable "in a train, bus or streetcar." The translator: the Rev. Tomio Muto, a Presbyterian minister and a former Tokyo judge, who was one of Tojo's leading propaganda writers during World...
Grunts & Groans. The Associated Press's Byron Rollins suggested that Ross let the photographers develop their pictures and submit them for approval. Said Ross, grimly: "These pictures will not be published." Cried International News Photos' Al Muto: "All we ever get from you is a lot of grunts and groans." Grabbing back his plates, he deliberately exposed them. Rollins and Acme's Milton Freier did the same. The movie men, who did not want to waste footage taken before the flight, let Charlie Ross ship their films to Washington to be developed by the Navy...
...seven were: Hideki Tojo, wartime Premier of Japan; General Kenji Doihara, who had engineered the Mukden Incident in 1931; General Heitaro Kimura, former commander in Manchuria; General Iwane Matsui, responsible for the rape of Nanking; General Akira Muto, former chief of staff in the Philippines; ex-Premier (1936-37) Koki Hirota; ex-War Minister Seishiro Itagaki...
Tojo, Matsui, Doihara and Muto were led into the prison courtyard while the other three waited in a Buddhist chapel. Frost was forming on the courtyard ground, and the air was misty. The four old men stood erect in G.I. fatigues. Matsui, shaking with age and cold and palsy, raised a quavering cry: "Tenno heika banzai! (May the Emperor live 10,000 years!)." The other three quaveringly took it up: "Banzai, banzai, banzai...
Next day the Jap had two more air-raid alarms, and this week he still hissed with dismay. He sacked the chief of the home command, Lieut. General Akira Muto, and he filled the air with illogical or contradictory blasts which only seemed to add to the magnitude of the bombers' success. Contradicting his story that only schools and hospitals had been hit, a Tokyo dispatch (via Berlin) announced that the Government would pay to rebuild the industrial plants that had been damaged. More important, he said that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that...