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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wiped out by the Americans. It turned out that these forces were not under Yamashita's effective command. He was far away in the hills, and had lost touch with the units responsible for most of the outrages. Yamashita, in fact, reached the Philippines for the first time two days after the U.S. troops had landed at Leyte, and never did succeed in establishing contact with many of his units...
...Supreme Court minority of two-the late Justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge-dissented in grave words. They were appalled by the "wide departure from any semblance of trial as we know that institution." Warned Murphy: "[Yamashita's trial] is unworthy of the traditions of our people . . . The high feelings of the moment doubtless will be satisfied. But in the sober afterglow will come the realization of the boundless and dangerous implications . . . No one in a position of command in an army, from sergeant to general, can escape those implications...
Last week, in a report to U.N.'s General Assembly, the Negotiators revealed what progress they had made trying to reconcile the two plans: exactly none...
...little basement theater in Prague was packed and jammed with Czech bobby-soxers, lured there by the Ministry of Information in hopes of hearing a two-hour program of Bing Crosby records...
Earlier in the week, two other U.S. consular officials arrived in Tokyo after 14 months in the nominally Chinese Manchurian port of Dairen...