Word: emperor
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Japan's political parties were as rattled as if the Emperor had suddenly reclaimed his forsaken divinity. Soka Gakkai, a society of Buddhist laymen, already holds 15 seats in the 250-member upper house, plus some 4,000 seats on local councils. Soka Gakkai (the Value-Creation Society) is more than just another party; it is a militantly organized, crusading sect vaguely combining Buddhism with left-wing reform or perhaps revolutionary politics, and its confessed ambition is to convert Japan and then the world...
...Monaco made a lasting impression on Movie Actress Grace Kelly by showing her around his private zoo, and he had plenty of royal precedent. Some 3,000 years ago, Egypt's Empress Hatasu sent out a whole fleet in search of new animals to stock her private menagerie; Emperor Wen, the first of China's Chou dynasty (12th century B.C.), had a collection of animals he called "the Garden of Intelligence"; Roman Emperor Octavius Augustus had no fewer than 420 tigers, 260 lions and 600 assorted other specimens from Africa...
...President Johnson must have read Tolstoy's War and Peace: "To have one's ear pulled by the Emperor was considered the greatest honor and mark of favor at the French Court." Beagles aren't French and L.B.J. isn't Bonaparte, but if there is political significance, remember Waterloo...
Shortly after "Emperor" MacArthur (as he was often called) was relieved of his command by President Truman, we heard that he said that all Japanese were "twelve-year-olds." I doubt that the general personally realized to what extent his words wounded the pride of the Japanese...
...sunny beaches. It was doubly so in view of the Brazilian army's historic respect for constitutional civilian authority. Brazil's military has intervened before in times of crisis to save the country from its politicians: in the last 150 years the military has toppled one Brazilian emperor, one dictator, one acting President and two full Presidents. But never for the sake of power...