Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divine Man Friday. General MacArthur's political task would approach the impossible if U.S. statecraft had not spelled out the Emperor's subordination to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Forces. Under the Potsdam terms as interpreted in Secretary Byrnes' message to Japan, the Emperor's influence must be exerted to crush resistance, carry out Allied orders. Where Hirohito fails, U.S. military forces will step...
Were the victors building up the throne? They were taking that chance. But the defeated Emperor's role as Man Friday for the occupying powers may in the long run disillusion the Japanese as nothing else could...
...house cleaning certain to come early in the occupation will scarcely enhance the Emperor's "divinity." Under the Potsdam declaration, which includes the purging of militarism from Japan, MacArthur has the right to toss out any member of the Emperor's new gov ernment (see FOREIGN NEWS), and many of them will have...
...Shock of Defeat. Never was a nation so ill-prepared for defeat. A Domei broadcast admitted that the Emperor's rescript came as a shock to a people who had been cut off from true military and political news of the outside world. Official statements and Tokyo broadcasts foreshadowed some of the Jap attitudes with which MacArthur must deal...
Docile Japs? Would the regimented, superstitious, uninformed Japanese docilely obey their Emperor? Washington experts were divided: most of those who knew Japan in the comfortable '20s thought that they would. Some even said that the Japanese were not a warlike people. Those who had met the Japanese in battle differed...