Word: terauchi
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...Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey Jr., bellicose Third Fleet commander, let out one of his periodic anti-Jap bellows, this time for punishment of "all Japs guilty of war crimes without respect for rank or position." Paying his particular respects to Field Marshal Juichi Terauchi, "the beast ... in command during the death march of our prisoners on Bataan," he proposed: "For every one of our men who was murdered, officially or otherwise, a Jap officer two ranks higher should suffer the death penalty...
...Army Ranger battalion landed from light, fast assault craft on Homonhon, Dinagat and Suluan. Jap communications were hamstrung but not completely destroyed. Tokyo got some kind of word that something was afoot, but apparently could not make up its mind that this was it. Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, once the butcher of North China and now island commander in the Philippines, made no special preparations for resisting a major assault...
When the "China Incident" broke out, Yamashita fought in North China under the command of another Germanophile, General Count Juichi Terauchi. Count Terauchi, who has since visited Germany (see cut), was last week named Supreme Commander of the entire southwestern Pacific theater...
...probably not a coincidence that Japan's commanders in the southern drive -Yamashita, Doihara, Honma, Terauchi -are from the next-to-top military drawer. Still neatly folded away in the very top drawer are Japan's very best-Itagaki, Sugiyama, Nishio. They may be in reserve for the crucial attack on Russia...
...knuckles of TIME'S proofreaders; an apology each to General Count Juichi Terauchi and sharp-eyed Reader Andrews...