
MSS2012-1_b1_f1_i207_0001
Parent | Resolution Asks Investigation of Light Sentences News Article |
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Date | |
Language | English |
Collection | C.W.J. Phelps Collection |
Box | Box 1 |
Folder | First Phelps Scrap Book |
Repository | University of Virginia Law Library |
Resolution Asks Investigation of Light Sentences
WASHINGTON (AP) – A house judiciary committee investigation into the “light sentences” given four Japanese officers who took part in the trial and execution of three Doolittle fliers was asked in a resolution introduced by Rep. Francis Walter (D-Pa.)
“What the Japanese officers admitted in their trial is murder in every state in the union. Some of us cannot understand the light sentence given in the military courts.”
The three Japanese officers’ received five-year jail terms and a fourth nine years.”