Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese Diet been allowed to meet...
...Diet was permitted to meet as the representative group of the people for the purpose of disseminating the surrender terms and directives...
...last Diet sessions before the surrender he expressed this view again, only to be vigorously opposed by members who replied: "Not we, but America will be punished by the heavens." But most of the Diet supported Suzuki and he received many unofficial suggestions that an attempt at peace be made...
...that time most of the members of the Diet knew the war was lost. But the people of Japan were ignorant of the state of the war. Indeed, the greatest cry for continuing to fight came from the uneducated and working people. They did not know Japan was beaten...
Some U.S. correspondents in Tokyo who got there before the Army found themselves in trouble with various authorities. The Jap Foreign Office said they could attend a Diet session only if they were 1) unarmed; 2) sober; 3) willing to promise not to eat in the galleries. They appealed to General MacArthur, who got the other provisions relaxed, but told them not to carry arms. Then he ordered newsmen three paces to the rear for the official entry into Tokyo. Said he dryly: "It is not American military policy for correspondents to spearhead the occupation...