HERO'S WELCOME
GENERAL WAINWRIGHT JAPANESE MUST PAY MILITARISTS’ FOLLY WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. General J. M. Wainwright was given a hero’s welcome in Washington. After a procession through the flaglined streets, he addressed an immense cheering crowd in the Mall. “No humane person could desire the Japanese to be forced to endure what many of our men suffered,’’ said General Wainwright, “but every subject of the Emperor must be made to realise the full meaning of surrender. Those truculent men must be forced to realise tlie folly of their ambitions.” He said that conditions in Manchuria were far from pleasant. Even the highest officers were forced to perform manual labour like any Chinese coolie.Other indignities were heaped on them, but he preferred not to discuss that now. In an address to the Senate and House of Representatives, General Wainwright said he gloried in the humiliation of the Japanese loaders who had surrendered abjectly on the Missouri.
General Wainwright visited President Truman and received to his surprise the Congressional Medal of Honour, the citation with which noted that his Corregidor stand commanded the admiration of the nation’s Allies.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21816, 12 September 1945, Page 6
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