Army & Navy - COMMAND: Such Grotesque Proceedings

On awkward sea legs, a stubby (5 ft. 2 in.) Japanese shambled last week into a white-walled ordnance classroom at the Washington Navy Yard. He wore a poor-quality, ill-fitting blue suit; there was nothing in his bearing or his sagjawed face, as expressionless as a teak deck, to show that he had been a commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy, commanding officer of the submarine I-58. He had left a wife and three small children at his house in bomb-battered Kure.

Captain John P. Cady, U.S.N., had already protested the Jap's admission to the courtroom, protested "calling one of the...

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