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...dark grey 1951 Cadillac with the 16-petal imperial chrysanthemum crest upon it, Emperor Hirohito made an official call on Supreme Allied Commander Matthew B. Ridgway. It was the 14th courtesy call of the conquered on the conqueror, and the last. Soon after, Ridgway returned the visit, then went home to prepare for his new assignment in Europe...
...four months, 21 days after the commander of Patrol Wing Two at Ford Island broadcast: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor! This is no drill," the war between the U.S. and Japan came to an official end. Japan promptly started a nine-day holiday to commemorate 1) the Peace Treaty, 2) Emperor Hirohito's 51st birthday, 3) May Day, 4) Japan's Memorial Day, 5) Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, 6) Children's Day. Headlined Tokyo's Nippon Times: LITTLE SIGNS OF JOY; PEOPLE IN QUANDARY...
...Tokyo, Prince Chichibu, younger brother of the Emperor, was named honorary chairman last July of an association to raise money for a memorial to Old Soldier Douglas MacArthur. Last week the newspaper Yomiuri reported the campaign results to date. Expenses: $2,962. Funds raised...
...room, and almost immediately were booked until late summer. (Among the early reservations: John D. Rockefeller III, Opera Star Helen Traubel.) Its famed Peacock Room, hung with the season's first cherry blossoms and paper lanterns, overflowed with bowing Japanese-including Emperor Hirohito's daughter-who ate from new silverware and fine china that has been brought from hiding...
Whoever says that all this doesn't have anything to do with Emperor Frederick and the astrological theme-they are dragged out from time to time, like grandfather's diaries, to amuse the intellectual visitors-is quite right, and doesn't understand the first thing about contemporary historical novels...