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...mountains near Nanking, amid the wreckage of a transport plane, a charred body lay. A scrap from a woolen sweater, a bodyguard's pistols, the testimony of a grief-stricken aide identified the fire-eaten remains as those of General Tai Li, one of China's most mysterious, most respected and most dreaded men. There was no official announcement of his death. But Lieut. General Cheng Chieh-min, 47, the Government's Moscow-educated G-2 chief, was named to succeed Tai Li as head of China's secret police...
From his charred palace, Emperor Hirohito, attended by a grim-miened bodyguard (see cut), drove to the Diet building. There, from his gold-and-maroon throne in the House of Peers, he addressed a joint session of the legislature. Tears welled in his eyes and euphemisms from his lips as he spoke not of defeat or surrender but of "cessation of hostilities . . . termination of the war . . . extraordinary measure. . . ." His command to his subjects: "remain cool, maintain self-composure, exercise patience and circumspection . . . win the confidence of the world . . . make manifest the innate glory of Japan's national policy...
Mohammed. "I stayed at the Waldorf, and we went to nightclubs, shows, on boat rides, and even to Coney Island. I loved every minute of it, and especially the times when we could slip away from the Prince's bodyguard. But as for romance, that's just plain silly. He was attracted to me because I can speak Arabic. . . ." The Prince, mindful of his one wife and six children in Saudi Arabia, said that he did not remember Mary Mohammed. He then departed for England and home...
...blood was shed. Finally the Matabele, armed with short stabbing-spears, hurled themselves against murderous lines of rifles and Maxims. Lobengula wrote his last letter to Queen Victoria: "Your Majesty, what I want to know from you is; why do your people kill me?" Six months later, his bodyguard buried his exhausted, dropsy-wasted body...
Adolf Hitler's ex-bodyguard, Sepp Dietrich, strove mightily to please when questioned by Allied captors. Choice Dietrich characterizations of the old Hitler Gang...