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Americans did hear horror stories -- of civilians massacred in Japanese air raids on undefended Shanghai and of the Rape of Nanking, a month of slaughter that cut down more than 200,000 civilians. Roosevelt talked of "quarantining" Japan, but American ships went on supplying Tokyo with American oil and steel. Times were hard, and business was business...
...Asahi Shimbun, which excoriated the "inhuman, insatiable, indiscriminate bombing." Several of the eight captured airmen were tortured to tell where they had come from, and three were executed by firing squad. Worse, the Japanese army tried to punish all Chinese who might have helped the downed pilots, and the slaughter in Chekiang and Kiangsu provinces took a toll estimated at more than 200,000. As often happened in this hate-filled era, each side angrily denounced the other's actions as atrocities...
...political concerns should be raised in order to avoid directly offending the Chinese leadership. And though the official media may not carry news of such a visit, it will spread by word of mouth throughout Beijing and other parts of China, just as news of the army's slaughter of students...
Republican state legislator George Allen was elected to the House from Virginia. He led Democrat Kay Slaughter, 63 percent to 34 percent, with 82 percent of the votes tallied. Allen, the son of the late football coach, replaces retiring Republican D. French Slaughter, Kay Slaughter's cousin...
...reception is that American reality seems to have upstaged the events which Ellis is depicting. Ellis, who has condemmed the American people's frightening ability to absorb atrocities, hoped to create a uniquely disturbing work, but he failed. Jeffrey Dahmer's slaying of homosexuals in Wisconsin, the racially motivated slaughter of Yankel Rosenbaum and inner-city realities overtook his work...