Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie...
Shigenobu Shima, Minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of Japan to the United States, presented the Order of the Sacred Treasure to Mrs. Warner. The award was conferred by the Emperor of Japan...
MacArthur's most interesting remarks befitting a reunion concerned the past. He recalled that he had opposed a Russian plan to bring Emperor Hirohito to trial as a war criminal. "He was to be tried and presumably hanged upon conviction," said MacArthur. "I realized what such an action would do and the extent to which it would complicate the occupation days ahead. I protested violently, and my protests were heeded . . . One of my arguments was that, as a result of the devotion of the Japanese people to their Emperor, his trial and execution would have necessitated an additional million...
...Herbig displayed a recent picture of the same region. The picture showed five stars, two of which may be newborn. The light from the new stars, of course, took 1,600 years to reach the earth, so the stars were actually born about the same time as the Roman Emperor Theodosius, and as far as any earthling knows, they may have long since gone...
...Nobody wanted to volunteer forthe odious duty," wrote a Japanese diplomat about the surrender on the Missouri. "The Prime Minister . . . was considered unsuitable because he was the Emperor's uncle . . . [The] Vice Premier . . . shunned the ordeal. Finally, the mission was assigned to Foreign Minister Shigemitsu." He was the little Japanese who stumped into history ten years ago this week, grotesque in frock coat and topper amid the tieless suntans of MacArthur's conquerors, to sign the surrender papers and take his nation's disgrace upon his bowed shoulders. One U.S. general recalled: "The Japanese plenipotentiary...