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BRITAIN list TO
REVIEW, JAP
SENTENcES
LONDON. Friday.
The; Lord Chancellor (Lord
Jowitt)' refused an application in;
thc'House'of'Lords yesterday for
Britain' to review. Japanese war
trial sentences.
A member of Britain's War
Cabinet, Lord Hankey, pleaded
for intervention by Britain on!
behalf of Japanese former
Foreign Minister Mamoru Shige
matsu because of, the aura of,
goodness that surrounds the
man!" , .."".'!.'
Lord JoWitt said that, after
reading of, the . tortures, inflicted
on Allied prisoners, his conscience
would not let him take any step
to 'haye\t,he"'tr'ials/reviewed.
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