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Some fissures were at last appearing in the armor of Bushido-the stern warrior code. By Western standards, the rate of surrender was still low indeed, but Japanese prisoners, once a rarity in the Pacific, were coming in as never before. Psychological warfare units worked hard to encourage more...
...half-starved, with few officers left, some enemy enlisted men decide to live.* There was no sign yet that any large number of enemy troops would be ready to surrender until total national defeat was upon them. And Premier Suzuki was intensifying his efforts to pump the savage military code of Bushido into civilians at home, men and women alike...
...almost overnight he became a national disgrace. He had always been a voracious Casanova; for his wife's one sin he had committed scores. Now he calmly restored her to his household. "I am not aware of any statute or code of morals," he wrote in an icy "open letter" to the howling public, "which makes it infamous to forgive a woman." Few knew that, when alone, Daniel and Teresa had nothing to do with each other. But everyone agreed that "The Washington Tragedy" had ended the brilliant Congressman's career...
...First, according to the U.S. conception, a war-crime code must be formulated. The British feared that Nazi criminals could not be properly tried under existing codes, wanted to punish them by a political fiat (as Napoleon was handled). Jackson and his aides believed that a proper code could be drafted from present international laws, and that in the long run a firm but fair trial procedure would be more effective...
From the British Ministry of Agriculture last week came news of an insecticide which may be as good as famed DDT, and perhaps better. Known in wartime code as "666," it is a simple chemical: hexa-chloro-benzene. In tests on parasitic mites and ticks (Acorida) it proved much more effective than DDT. On mangy rats infested with itch mites it worked a complete cure and, unlike DDT, proved entirely harmless to the animals. It may be the answer to scabies in animals and man, and to many tick-borne diseases...