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...last week, eleven-year-old Rosalinda Andoy washed her face and hands carefully, combed her straight black hair with a part on the side, put on her best pink dress. Then she was taken across the hot, wrecked city to the high-ceMnged ballroom where Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita was on trial for war crimes committed by his troops. She sat gravely in the witness chair, tried to tilt her dangling feet to keep her sandals from falling off, and told why she was an orphan...
...shell-scarred, balconied Manila ballroom Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita, onetime "Tiger of Malaya" and "Beast of Bataan," was on trial for his life. He looked incredibly tame and safe, a froglike man in a green uniform who sat shaven-headed, sleepy-eyed, almost motionless at a long table. Occasionally he smiled. In the ordered courtroom uniformed attorneys shuffled papers, entered objections, laboriously introduced exhibits...
Douglas MacArthur paid no noticeable attention. He announced that the 700-year-old blade once sported by General Tomoyuki Yamashita was being sent out to West Point. Annapolis will get the sword once carried by Vice Admiral Denshichi Okochi...
...U.S.S. Missouri, received the first of the five pens with which General MacArthur signed the document. Then, for the supreme moment of his wonder-packed week, he returned to Baguio, to accept the surrender of all Japs in the Philippines from the now fangless "Tiger of Malaya," Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita...
With his ancestors' 700-year-old samurai sword buckled at the side of his faded, patched uniform, fierce, bullet-headed General Tomoyuki Yamashita came trudging out of northern Luzon's Caraballo Mountains...