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Parent | Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, April 10, 1946 |
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Date | 10 April 1946 |
Language | English |
Collection | David Nelson Sutton Papers |
Box | Box 14 |
Folder | Folder 61 | [Add Description] |
Repository | Virginia Historical Society |
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Will be composed of one judge each from the nine powers the Japanese surrendered to – the United States, Britain, Russia, France, China, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands – will try only top-ranking war criminals found to have “conspired, instituted and conducted aggressive war in violation of treaties.”
Meanwhile, Supreme Headquarters ordered the Japanese government to deliver to the International Prosecution Section plans for the fortification of the Pacific islands mandated to it at the end of World War I. The fortification of these former German islands by Japan was in direct violation of the League of Nations Covenant.