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...shell-scarred, balconied Manila ballroom Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita, onetime "Tiger of Malaya" and "Beast of Bataan," was on trial for his life. He looked incredibly tame and safe, a froglike man in a green uniform who sat shaven-headed, sleepy-eyed, almost motionless at a long table. Occasionally he smiled. In the ordered courtroom uniformed attorneys shuffled papers, entered objections, laboriously introduced exhibits...
...access to high places stirs his suspicions; unmasks the crookery of a fellow-journalist (Rhys Williams); helps drive Tanaka to harakiri. For comic relief he makes a monkey, again & again, out of his feckless shadower (Leonard Strong). He uses judo, to thrilling and protracted effect, to chop down huge, shaven-pated Heavy Jack Halloran. Finally, in front of the U.S. Embassy one night, he confronts what looks like the entire secret police force of Japan. His tag line, spat at an oleaginous police chief (Marvin Mueller) who has had the insolence to try to appeal to him as a Christian...
Their garrison commander, Captain Lut, ramrod-stiff and shaven-pated U-boat skipper, boasted openly of his high score-110,000 tons of Allied shipping-and usually added: "The next time I will do better...
While I watched, a civilian tramped across the bodies and dealt Mussolini's shaven head a terrific kick. Someone pushed the twisted head into a more natural position again with a rifle butt...
...would seem logical and fair that, for every French prostitute so eagerly shaven and stripped by the impromptu courts held by French people, one shopkeeper and one businessman or businesswoman should also be given the same treatment. They, too, in their own way, have been doing business with the Nazis, the only difference, perhaps, being in the greater profit realized by the shopkeeper and businessman...