Word: tojo
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...Japanese press published poems written by 13 of the condemned men. Tojo wrote...
...sentence was death-by hanging. Earlier, greeting his U.S. defense counsel, Tojo had said: "I am prepared to meet my Maker. If the verdict is against me, I shall not ask for my life, and I do not want you to ask MacArthur for my life." When he had heard the sentence, he said it was a "victors' trial"-meaning, what else could a sensible Japanese expect? Outside, under a tree, his wife and daughter wept...
Tons of Paper. The trial of Tojo and 27 other top war criminals began in Tokyo 2½ years ago in the black painted granite building which had been the Japanese War Ministry, on a hill behind the Emperor's palace. Eleven nations were represented on the Allied tribunal. * The trial cost $9,000,000, used up 100 tons of paper. Shorthand writers took down nearly 10 million words of argument and testimony. During the trial two defendants died; one, who began acting queerly, was sent to a mental hospital...
Droning on steadily for seven days, Australia's ruddy, silver-haired Sir William Webb, the tribunal's chairman, read the verdict. One by one, the prisoners were called in for sentencing. For six others besides Tojo, it was death; for 16 more, life imprisonment...
...that "aggressors" was merely a label applied by conquerors to the conquered. This was echoed by Manhattan's Daily News, which warned U.S. military leaders that they were already being labeled "aggressors" by Russia and that they had better win the next war if they wanted to avoid Tojo's fate...