Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regret to find that in its Dec. 31 issue TIME has fallen into the somewhat common error of referring to Montezuma as "Aztec Emperor of Mexico." Montezuma II was not an "emperor" and did not rule over an "empire. . . ." Montezuma was only one of the two chiefs of Tenochtitlan, the ancient Mexico City. Both these chiefs had but limited powers. . . . The "Aztec Empire" was only a loose confederation of nations tributary to Tenochtitlan but not integrated into a single, or even several large, governmental systems...
...Hirohito expressed concern for "the desires of the people" and his wish "always to share ... their joys and sorrows." It seemed like an effort to bring the ex-god closer to his ex-worshipers-quite in line with the Tokyo press's recent featuring of pictures of the Emperor and his Empress in civilian instead of ceremonial clothes, strolling or puttering in their garden with their children, more like people than divinities...
...Street. Most Japanese were not visibly affected by the Emperor's disavowal. The Nippon Times rationalized: "No innovation, as many foreigners think, but a return to the true traditions of Japan after a period of temporary perversion. It can occasion no astonishment . . . only a quiet and profound satisfaction." Communists sneered: "The statement of non-divinity shows a retreat caused by international pressure and attacks by the people. It is like an octopus eating its own tentacles when hungry...
...Japanese man-in-the-street, interviewed by Allied newsmen, reacted in typical Japanese fashion: he himself had never really believed the Emperor divine. Perhaps he meant it. Perhaps he was characteristically saying what he thought his interviewers wanted him to say. Perhaps he was just being bafflingly Japanese...
...divinity. The new parties and the press, consistently more liberal than the Government, gleefully belabored Shidehara's "do-nothing" administration. Cried Tokyo's influential Yomiuri Hochi: "The pursuit of those responsible for the war will soon be made by the people themselves ... up to the Emperor himself if they continue to cling to their positions without any thought of repentance...