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...Freedom, liberty or democracy-whatever called-its essence is the right and dignity of the individual. To achieve that principle has taken centuries of revolution and bloody battle. In Japan, this principle came so suddenly-and so quietly-that most observers fail to see the scope of the tremendous, bloodless revolution that has been wrought here since the start of the American occupation...
...even in this scene, the country was in ferment. The "bloodless revolution" was in full swing. Just two years ago, the Diet passed Japan's new constitution. MacArthur himself had written the first draft in his clear, old-fashioned hand. It reduced the Emperor from godhead to symbol, abolished the feudal aristocracy, gave the Diet genuine power to make laws, guaranteed popular liberties, decreed sex equality, renounced the nation's right to make war, even for self-defense. It contained such alien concepts as "public servants" (ancient custom made bureaucrats responsible only to the Throne) and "pursuit...
...Green is an English novelist (Odd Man Out; A Flask for the Journey) with a special knack for portraying the terrors of obscure city people. His aim: to steer a middle course between the bloodstained thriller and the bloodless novel of ideas. His latest novel achieves it. Mist on the Waters is a taut telling of a crime of weakness, and of the forces it releases in the lives of its perpetrators...
...Communists took over the Indonesian government in a bloodless coup...
After consulting with their military friends, the party bosses decided not to wait until April. Saturday night, while General Rolón and most of his ministers were attending a wake for the Primate of Paraguay, the insiders ran off a swift and bloodless coup, installed Molas...