Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts were few, but exotic. At Fountainebleau, Ho appeared as a saintly-looking little man who liked to present roses to lady reporters. He had started his underground political career 35 years ago at 19, when his radical father was imprisoned by an unsympathetic Viet Nam emperor. He ran off to sea, went to France at the end of World War I and under the alias of Nguyen-Ai-Quoc ( One Who Loves His Country"), became a Socialist, and later a Communist. Then he went to Moscow, where, under the alias of Song Man-tcho ("Mr. Song of Boundless Generosity...
...members of the U.S. Education Mission were ushered into a room in the palace where there were no chairs. Everybody stood around awkwardly while Hirohito asked elaborate questions about the weather. Then the Emperor came to the point: Could the Mission recommend an American tutor for the Crown-Prince? Says Chairman George D. Stoddard (now president of the University of Illinois): "I gulped a few times on that one. Then I said, yes indeed, we could all think of someone...
...little later, over tea and cakes, it was the Japs who were surprised when Stoddard thought to ask Hirohito's master of ceremonies Hidenari Terasaki whether the Emperor wanted a man or woman tutor. (Jap princes are traditionally removed from feminine influence, even their own mother's, at an early age.) Says Stoddard: "Terasaki thumped his teacup down on the mahogany table, really baffled. When he returned after consulting Hirohito, he said the Emperor wanted a woman...
Several hundred U.S. teachers, hearing of the Emperor's offer (TIME, April 8), had applied for the job. Mrs. Vining was not one of them. The American Friends Service Committee told her it was a chance to serve the cause of peace, asked permission to suggest her name to Dr. Stoddard. Says she: "I did not see how I could refuse." Stoddard proposed two names, Mrs. Vining's and that of a teacher in Hawaii. Mrs. Vining...
...democracy in much the same spirit as they accepted U.S. jazz. When MacArthur ordered them to hold an election, 27 million of them trooped to the polls. They organized Western-style political parties and prepared to accept a Western-style constitution. When they were ordered to cease worshiping their Emperor as a god, they willingly obliged...