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Originally Posted by Andy in West Oz

So, despite the US and the UK stopping the war crimes styles by 1949, the Australian government still hunted down Nishimura in 1951. Good on 'em!

The saying "never look a gift horse in the mouth" may have been appropriate.

Imagine the look on his face when he was snatched.

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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

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