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The windrows of Japanese dead had a peculiar distinction. They wore red shoulder patches, the insignia given to the troops who had captured Nanking in 1937. Some of the rapists of Nanking had collected their wages.
Chungkingers last week wondered whether they would soon lose their favorite spittoon, the iron statue of Nanking Puppet Wang Ching-wei and his wife. The question of revenge against turncoats had been reopened by the conservative Catholic newspaper Yishipao, with this editorial olive branch: "If the traitors are willing to...
In the bleak Nanking headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army, thin, razor-keen General Shunroku Hata was brightly confident. He boasted: "As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops." The year: 1939.
> The State Department also permitted the Japs to seize the political initiative in Asia, by gifts and promises of gifts of territory to its satellites in Burma, Thailand, Nanking and French Indo-China. Said the New York Times of this U.S. blunder: "We cannot win [Asiatic good will] unless we...
It was Lin Sen's simplicity, his kindliness and his great sense of humor that earned him a unique place in Chinese hearts. When a group of American newsmen visited Nanking shortly after the 1932 Shanghai war, they were struck by the loveliness of an unusually large garden behind...