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...circle at house-to-house pace. In about seven months Stilwell had driven almost 200 miles from Ledo, had knocked out about 17,700 Japanese casualties. His Chinese, Americans, British, Burmese and Indians had stamped out the 18th Japanese Division, whose fame at home was built on the rape of Nanking, the capture of Shanghai and Singapore, victories in Malaya and Burma. His troops had also badly mauled three other Jap divisions...
...large part of the Negro 92nd Infantry Division trained for almost a year at Fort McClellan, Ala., with no serious trouble. San Diego reported a lower percentage of rape cases among Negroes than among white servicemen. Tucson's Chief of Police reported: "Conditions excellent, due to exceptionally good, behavior...
...found next day in the trench coat in which she entered the house. The police questioned the baby-tender and believed his story. Mrs. Higginson's broken wrist watch indicated that the attack had come, apparently from behind, at 11:15. There had been no attempt at rape, no robbery. Six special investigators went to work; 30 state police beat through the dark woods; and the boys' father flew home, grim-faced, and rushed his wife to Boston for a brain operation...
...Army guardhouse somewhere in England, Negro Corporal Leroy Henry heard good news last week. A U.S. court martial had shocked Britons by condemning him to death for a somewhat doubtful case of rape (TIME, June 12). Overburdened General Dwight D. Eisenhower somehow found time to examine the record, found "many mitigating circumstances," ruled the evidence "insufficient" for the penalty, ordered the court to impose a lighter sentence...
...publisher necessarily or even usually a martinet. Instead, his attitude "filters down, by well-defined channels, to his staff. . . . Without orders, without crude directives, city editors fall easily into the habit of saving their big type for safe topics like rape and burglary, and burying the 'hot' (the ideologically dangerous) news in the back pages. Reporters learn not to scrutinize too closely the sacred cows of the community, and editorial writers husband their mightiest blasts for the remotest wrongs...