Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Country Life. In Phoenix, Ariz., Harry Schmidlin offered for sale: "Two pair shoes, slightly used. Going back to Arkansas." Girl Trouble. In Alton, Ill., the parking meters were getting acute indigestion from a diet of too many hairpins...
...Imperial Palace, isolated in the city's heart behind its green moats and grey stone walls, was still standing-as were the Ministries of Trade and Education, the Police Headquarters, the U.S. Embassy and the Diet. The Foreign Office and the Navy Ministry were rubble...
...long silence emerged the grand old man of a bygone Japanese liberalism-indomitable Yukio Ozaki, 85, ex-Cabinet Minister, ex-mayor of Tokyo, Diet member since 1890, lifelong champion of parliamentary government. He had survived terrorist threats, Government persecution and the corrosion of "thought-control." Now stone deaf, Ozaki last week called on his Diet colleagues to resign rather than "persist in past practices of blind obedience to the Government...
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...
...Bear the Unbearable." Two days later the Emperor's kinsman and Prime Minister, Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, spoke to the Diet. His flat face was inscrutable, his soldier's hands rigidly at attention. The legislators listened impassively (a few dozed), applauded and approved with the discipline of marionettes. But there was little to cheer in the Premier's words...