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...Shusuke Wada was a nimble, hunchbacked interpreter nicknamed "Running Wada" by the American prisoners he escorted from Manila to Japan. Once, from the steaming hold of the Oryoku Maru came the desperate cry: "For God's sake, Mr. Wada, we must have water! The men are dying. They're drinking their own urine!" Shouted Wada: "If they die, it's no concern of mine." Of the 1,619 prisoners, only 450 survived the trip...
...defense asked witness Lieut. Colonel Austin J. Montgomery how he could be sure the word Wada used was "concern." Said lean, bitter Survivor Montgomery: "I consider myself pretty much of an authority on Mr. Wada's English expressions. We called them Waddisms." The court also got superlative evidence of the American soldier's ability to wisecrack. Through parched lips, American prisoners had muttered: "Wada, Wada everywhere, and not a drop to drink...
...gittle, giddle-di-ap, giddle-de-tommy, riddle de biddle de roop, da-reep, fa-san, skeedle de woo-da, fiddle de wada, reep...
Contemptuously the Foreign Minister deigned no reply. His pacifist declaration had been made for foreign consumption, had nothing to do with the steady onrush of Japan's war machine which was crashing Inner and Outer Mongolia last week. Greatest glory of the week went to a Japanese Col. Wada, who captured a Lamaist temple on the Outer Mongolian border...
...Minnetonka (Atlantic Transport)?Dr. Arthur T. Hadley, President Emeritus of Yale University; B. Arkell, President of the Beechnut Products Co.; Lieutenant-General Kameji Wada, leading a military mission from Japan; 46 British polo ponies for the International matches...