Word: yamashita
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...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...
...pretty, 26-year-old Filipino actress, Corazon Noble, began the testimony, with which the prosecution intended to prove that Japanese atrocities were part of Yamashita's plan. She had taken refuge with her ten-month-old baby in a Red Cross emergency hospital during the Battle for Manila, had been trapped there by four Japanese sailors. One had raised his rifle, fired, wounded her in the elbow. Then the Japs bayoneted...
Order in the Court. As the testimony wore on, formality lent the proceedings the curious improbability of a bad horror play. But twice there were real and savage scenes. A Chinese woman, who had seen her baby bayoneted, stared at Yamashita from the stand, cried: "That Jap is to blame. He's got to be killed to pay for what he's done!" A slim Filipino girl halted her testimony, cried in a low, tense voice: "You still have the face to look at me, Yamashita. If I could only get near you. You ought...
Both women were led from the room. The five U.S. generals of the trial commission, conducting the first U.S. war-crimes trial, were thus setting a precedent; they proceeded with the utmost caution. Yamashita, who hoped to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, would be given every legal courtesy-by men who devoutly hoped to see him face a firing squad...
...Correction. Virtually all newspapers repeatedly credited Wainwright with accepting Yamashita's surrender. Everybody was wrong...