Word: shigemitsu
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...contemptuous of his surroundings, making full use of his amazing memory for details. Peremptorily he picked the few defendants on whose behalf he wished to intercede. Of Field Marshal Shunroku Hata he said: "I will testify for that man. . . . He's a fool." Of ex-Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu: "My personal good friend. He, together with myself, has always been opposed to war." But most other defendants he decided to condemn-admittedly for reasons of personal revenge. Said Tanaka: "I feel the truth is necessary for Japan and for the world. That is why I shall be assassinated when...
...Tokyo's International Military Tribunal for the Far East rested its case last week. The defense went through the formality of a motion for dismissal, then buckled down to the task of defending the 26 Japanese in the dock (including. ex-Prime Minister Tojo and ex-Foreign Minister Shigemitsu). The charges: "Crimes against peace, murder, conventional war crimes and crimes against humanity...
...Down? While Japanese were obligingly suggesting names for war criminals-among them Shigemitsu, Konoye and Umezu - the No. 1 Japanese war criminal of them all, billiard-bald, razor-tongued Hideki Tojo, who as Premier led his people to war on December 7, 1941, took matters into his own hands. The day after two Associated Press correspondents forced their way into his house for an interview, U.S. Army intelligence officers turned up to take Tojo away for questioning. The irate warmonger made faces at them througlf a window, retired to an inner room where he had already made hara-kiri preparations...
...Shigemitsu, doffing his silk hat and peeling a yellow glove from his right hand, limped forward to sign the document and was assisted to a chair. With a blank, expressionless face he composed himself and signed. Umezu followed. He slowly drew off his white gloves and, without sitting, bent his stocky body forward and affixed the authority of the Japanese Army to the acknowledgment of total defeat...
...French, Dutch and New Zealand signers who followed him.] The orders were placed in their hands and the Americans curtly gave them the signal to leave. They turned and departed as they had come. The shrill bosun's pipe followed their steps over the side-Shigemitsu, tired and expressionless, limping on his cane as he went; Umezu, stony-faced and silent, lifting a white-gloved hand to acknowledge the salute of the guard at the gangway...