Word: terauchi
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Died. Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, 66, scion of the samurai, son of the 1910 annexer of Korea, wartime commander of Japanese land forces in the southern regions (IndoChina, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines), former War Minister; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Johore, Malaya...
...that the British had botched the job. The Japanese, said Colonel H. J. Cedille, had armed the natives, incited them to riot and in some cases had joined them, posing as Annamites. General Gracey, dismayed by the whole business, talked tough to the Jap commander, Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, then flew down to Singapore with Colonel Cedille, senior French officer at Saigon, for a worried conference with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. But not until strong French forces arrived (under General Jacques Leclerc and Admiral Georges Thierry d'Ar-genlieu) would Terauchi's men be disarmed...
...Sultan of Johore, bearing a personal grudge against the Jap invaders of his Malayan state-they had not only maltreated his subjects but had swiped five of his automobiles and one of his polo-field rollers-recalled one thoroughly satisfactory incident: Field Marshal Terauchi had made him a present of a loaf of bread, but the Sultan simply smelled it-in the Marshal's presence-and told a manservant to throw it away...
...Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey Jr., bellicose Third Fleet commander, let out one of his periodic anti-Jap bellows, this time for punishment of "all Japs guilty of war crimes without respect for rank or position." Paying his particular respects to Field Marshal Juichi Terauchi, "the beast ... in command during the death march of our prisoners on Bataan," he proposed: "For every one of our men who was murdered, officially or otherwise, a Jap officer two ranks higher should suffer the death penalty...
...Army Ranger battalion landed from light, fast assault craft on Homonhon, Dinagat and Suluan. Jap communications were hamstrung but not completely destroyed. Tokyo got some kind of word that something was afoot, but apparently could not make up its mind that this was it. Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, once the butcher of North China and now island commander in the Philippines, made no special preparations for resisting a major assault...