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...more she thought about it, the bloodthirstier her language became: "Yes, they're nutty all right, these 'liberals'-for they can't see further ahead than the first frenzied days of plunder, murder, fire, rape and prancing about with pale, fresh-cut human heads on bloody pikes . . . besotted in their lust for blood and carnage and dollars...
...Rape & Heat. Chicago papers announced a "rape wave" in suburban Evanston. Actually, rape had increased only slightly, but there was now more space in which to write about it. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer sent a reporter to "rediscover" the State of Washington, another to look up kinfolk of Seattle Scandinavians in Norway, Sweden, Denmark...
...Catch. War criminals were slowly being rounded up and divided into three categories: those who had plotted and perpetrated the war, such as Hideki Tojo and his Cabinet; military leaders responsible for military outrages such as the rape of Nanking and the death march on Bataan; Japanese soldiers and civilians responsible for individual atrocities...
...meted out to any Jap paper by General MacArthur: a two-day suspension. Reason: Asahi had darkly suggested that "some people think [the] announcement of Japanese atrocities may be timed to offset the news about outrages committed by some American soldiers in Japan " (Japs have accused G.I.s of rape.) Next day MacArthur suspended for one day the English-language Nippon-Times...
Since the occupation, U.S. correspondents had watched with anger and amazement the Japs' Domei News Agency getting away with murder. Domei lectured the invading forces on how they must behave (TIME, Sept. 17), published eight bright suggestions on how Japanese women might avoid rape by brutal U.S. troops, explained why Japanese war criminals should not be punished too severely. Most galling to U.S. reporters, Domei dispatches at first were censor-free, later given only a once-over-lightly by U.S. blue pencils...