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This was the worst atrocity committed by a civilized nation in modern times. It was not even hot and savage like the Japanese rape of Nanking. It was cold and calm. The Germans did it with the expression of a concentration-camp guard kicking a prisoner in the groin. There...
The Silent Men. They read about China's "second front." All along the lost coast the silent men, the guerrillas, men who plough dumbly in daytime but are very keen at night, rose up and attacked. They raided Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow, Nanchang, Ningpo, Wuhu, Amoy. They tore up the...
Shoe Shine, Mister? Like a crazed animal, the Jap had purged himself after a savage campaign in Nanking's 1937 blood bath. But, whatever fears gnawed at hearts in U.S. homes last week, there was no confirmed evidence that the rape of Nanking had been repeated, not even at...
This was Nanking in December 1937. If a military tribunal were to seek out the responsibility for this tragedy, it would find guilty the man who was directly responsible for the discipline of the first Japanese troops to enter the city: their commander, Lieut. General Prince Yashuhiko Asaka. Without recourse...
White-bearded, beaming Talbot Hamlin, an architect who has built houses, banks and colleges from Nanking to Manhattan, settled down eight years ago as librarian of the Avery Library to view architecture from the sidelines and to write the finest popular book (Architecture Through the Ages; Putnam; $6) in English...