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Japanese War Bride (Joseph Bernhard; 20th Century-Fox) is a skin-deep drama about the difficulties of a Tokyo nurse (Japan's Shirley Yamaguchi) who goes to live among California lettuce growers as the wife of an unbelievably naive Korean War veteran (Don Taylor). To Taylor's surprise, the folks at home do not warm up readily to his bride. She is patronized, insulted, finally slandered by a jealous in-law (Marie Windsor) in a poison-pen letter accusing her of an affair with a local Nisei farmer...
...Heavenly Peace Gate, the plotters had intended to blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Yihsien in Hopei province-life imprisonment; four foreign-born old China hands and one Chinese businessman-prison terms ranging from five to ten years...
...executions of Riva and Yamaguchi were carried out immediately after the "plot" was announced. Reported Radio Peking: as the condemned were led to their death, "the streets they passed through were thronged with people who expressed their feelings .. . with shouts of 'Down with imperialism! Suppress counterrevolutionaries! Long live Chairman...
...bare-faced lie." Dave Barrett spoke up from Formosa: "I never at any time . . . attempted to assassinate or contrive the assassination of anyone." The real moral of the story is as plain as Mao meant it to be: outsiders are no longer safe in Red China. Riva and Yamaguchi are the first foreigners to be sentenced to death as counterrevolutionaries, while Bishop Martina is the first Catholic clergyman to be sentenced to life in prison. He is fairly big game, as acting representative in Peking for Archbishop Antonio Riberi, papal internuncio for China, who is under house arrest in Nanking...
Admitted to a Santa Monica, Calif, hospital for a minor operation, Japan's Shirley ("The Grable of the Orient") Yamaguchi, 24, who had come to Hollywood to learn how to make love, American style, gave the lowdown on love in Japan: "Since the G.I.s came to Japan they have introduced many new customs such as to kiss and smooch and hold each other's neck...