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Like Hirohito of Japan, Emperor Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela XXVI is a scion of the sun. Unlike Hirohito, the legitimate heir to the golden throne of the Incas has offered to remain neutral in World War II. But one day last spring the Emperor's neutrality became strained. In fact, Huaraca XXVI got hopping mad. For continental defense purposes Ecuador had offered to lend the U.S. use of a plot of "sacred land" donated to the Emperor by the Santa Elena City Council-the very spot where the "Only Inca" had intended to build a summer palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Feathers & Crown | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Inca Monarchist Party. Now that white men are destroying each other in a global war, the way is being prepared for restoration of Ttahuantinsuyu ("the Four Quarters of the World") to the Indians. He himself may never see that day. But to his son, Prince Calvino Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela, may come his rightful heritage: dominion over all the lands between Quito, Ecuador, and the Maule River in Chile. Virgins will light long-extinguished sacred fires. And priests will greet the rising sun with kisses thrown from their finger tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Feathers & Crown | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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