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After serving three years in Sugamo Prison, Kishi and 18 other "Class" A war-crime suspects" were released without trial. In jail he had read Confucius, exercised, cleaned cells and latrines, despised the craven and selfish behavior of the admirals and generals in prison with him, and thought. Kishi recalls: "I had plenty of time to strip my own soul naked and study it." He says he was "forced to the conclusion that the war had been futile from the start. I became convinced that Japan must never again be involved in war." Finally, "when I found...
...health of peoples wherever U.S. troops are stationed in the Far East. Roaming free Asia in everything from jeeps to light planes, Namru's field teams (average strength: twelve men) have collected mosquitoes from traps in dunghills, snails from paddyfields, snakes from underbrush, argued Chinese followers of Confucius out of their scruples about giving blood samples, braved a batch of contagious epidemics...
...Christ should be regarded only as a very great prophet or teacher, much as the Mohammedans accept Mohammed, or as the Chinese accept Confucius...
...mildly good Van Goyens have been sent over to the Fogg where they are suitably scaled in size and gloom to the second floor gallery arcade. In all, though, I'm afraid that I'll just have to fall back on local pundit-philosopher S. Marshall Cohen's Confucius Say about the Harvard museum situation: "One in the Fogg is worth two in the Busch."PICASSO: La Femme au Chignon...
...servant. Disheartened at flunking exams, and already possessed of fragments of Christianity, he fell ill and went into a 40-day trance. During the trance, he saw visions, and later declared that he had talked with God and been ordained to rule China. Hung threw the graven tablet commemorating Confucius out of his classroom. The act brought immediate dismissal as a teacher. After Hung converted his best friend, the pair began proselytizing in Kwangsi province...