Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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September. In Tokyo, the Communist newspaper Red Flag accused city officials of luring prospective members from the party by offering them free baths...
...Supreme Court, after voting 5 to 4 to hear argument on whether to review the legality of the eleven-nation Tokyo tribunal, decided 6 to 1 that it had no jurisdiction to review the verdict. The Japanese-and many Americans-were somewhat bewildered by these final hesitations. There were to be no more. The seven understood that; they waited in Tokyo's quiet Sugamo prison for General Douglas MacArthur to fix the date of execution...
Other Japanese saw darker reasons for the U.S. action. Last week Tokyo was rife with baseless rumors that the war criminals were being saved because the U.S. wanted their help in fighting Russia. Some even spread the fantastic tale that General Yamashita, whose appeal to the Supreme Court was turned down in 1946, had not been hanged at all and was now in the U.S. as a top military adviser. Most Japanese were simply bewildered by the legal mumbo jumbo of the inscrutable Occidentals. Many an American felt the same...
...dangerous precedent," warned Chinese Justice Mei Ju-ao. Even some Japanese were cautious in praise of the decision. "We are keenly alive to the honor of a supreme court of a democracy which does not rest content unless every doubtful point is eliminated," editorialized Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, "but what concerns us most is the issue of how to safeguard the world against war crimes...
Second Witch & Violet. Olivia's own case history would probably begin with her father. Walter de Havilland was a British patent attorney living in Tokyo, where Olivia was born in 1916. When she was about eight, an event occurred which -as any cocktail party psychoanalyst knows-was enough to give her complexes to last a lifetime. Her father (in the words of wife Lilian, he "spoke like God but behaved like the devil") decided to leave his wife and marry the De Havillands' Japanese maid. Mrs. de Havilland had already taken Olivia and her younger sister Joan...