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...Manhattan, John David Provoo, 35, ex-U.S. Army sergeant and onetime devotee of Japanese Buddhism; was convicted of treason after a trial lasting 15 weeks (TIME, Nov. 24). Charges on which the jury found Provoo guilty: 1) offering his services to the Japanese army following his capture at Corregidor in May 1942; 2) helping to cause the execution of one fellow prisoner by denouncing him to the Japanese as "uncooperative"; 3) participating in two wartime Japanese propaganda broadcasts. The eighth U.S. citizen to be convicted of treason since World War II, Provoo was the second to be convicted...
...Japanese fried shrimp, Buddhist chants and a hoard of silver figured in the testimony of John Provoo, charged with...
Star witness in the seventh week of the treason trial of former Sergeant John David Provoo (TIME, Nov. 24) was 69-year-old General Jonathan M. Wainwright, called as witness for the defense. To the lawyer who was forced to shout his questions, Wainwright apologized and explained that he was nearly deaf as a result of shell bursts during the siege of Corregidor. After testifying that he had not known Provoo, nor had he received reports that the man had given aid & comfort to the enemy, the general gave the Manhattan jury a moving, 90-minute account of the defense...
...oddest aspects of the Provoo case is that in 1946, after he was liberated, the U.S. Army investigated him for eight months, found no proof that he had collaborated with the enemy, and discharged him honorably. After six weeks, he re-enlisted for a three-year hitch. In 1949, he was indicted. Provoo's defense will be chiefly that he was "driven to irrationality" by imprisonment, and that he acted under duress...
...witness after bitter witness testified against him, Provoo sat in court, writhing at the accusations. He was heard frequently to mutter curses under his breath-or possibly one of those wild Buddhist chants...