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...backed down on China by early October. The proposal of the supreme command was blunt and final; Hirohito's civilian ministers accepted it. Apparently only Hirohito himself felt called upon to make any further observations. He pulled out a poem that had been written by his grandfather, the Emperor Meiji, and read it aloud...
...after Atomic Bomb No. 2 struck Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito stepped down from the clouds at another imperial conference, and for the first time in his career dictated a major decision: to accept the Allies' terms of unconditional surrender...
...luncheon guest-the leader of a group of Indo-Chinese Nationalist intellectuals who are still undecided about supporting French-sponsored Emperor Bao Dai-smiled down at the kids in the street. "Like most peoples of Asia," he said, "we are chronic gamblers. Except," he added thoughtfully, "in politics, where we like a sure thing...
...Show. Facing the Vietminh is a weak Vietnamese government without credit in the country. The chief of state and Descendant of Heaven, Emperor Bao Dai, is still a symbol commanding great respect, only some of which has been frittered away by his consistent neglect of public affairs...
This is a Roman Catholic plan for the most sacred shrine in Christendom-the place where the crucified body of Christ is said to have been laid. According to tradition, the Holy Sepulchre was discovered in about 300 A.D. by Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine. Destroyed and rebuilt several times since then, the present church is a cramped, badly maintained building that has disappointed many a pious tourist. Crowded into its dingy interior, the shrines, chapels and stalls of six branches of Christianity (Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic and Abyssinian) constantly interfere with each other...