TOKIO TRIAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1946, Page 7

TOKIO TRIAL

JAPANESE LEADERS UNPERTURBED NOW SLEEK AND ASSURED (Rec. 11.10 a.m.) TOKIO, July 29. While bloody evidence mounts against them, Japan’s major war crimes defendants who two months ago faced the international tribunal, shabby and scowling, have become sleek and assured with clean pressed civilian suits, uniforms and trimmed beards and flowing moustaches, says the Associated Press correspondent. Their scowls and stubborn silence have given way to philosphical detachment, even cheerfulness, as they chat with their attorneys and join in the laughter which infrequently ripples through the courtroom. It is imnossible to read their thoughts. The former general, Iwate Matsui, who is charged with major responsibility for the rape of Nanking, appears to be unperturbed as the horrible details are related. The former Foreign Minister. Shigemitsu, accused of many diplomatic manoeuvres preceding the attack on China, stares at his feet like a man contemplating a great gambling loss. Tojo, whose eggshaped, bald head dominates the dock, follows the testimony closely.