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Once again Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey performed for the photographers. Aboard his flagship, the mighty Missouri, he used a bayonet to slice a cake iced like a Japanese flag. But he was unhappy. He was about to go into Japan, and almost everybody expected him to ride the Emperor's white horse when he got there...
...robe of traditional Japanese white - the color of death." The advance guard of airborne invaders landed at Atsugi; their transports disgorged aviation engineers, jeeps, gasoline, rations, radios, to prepare for the grand entry of the 11th Airborne Division and of MacArthur himself. Between Atsugi and the fleet was the Emperor's seaside palace at Hayama, destined to be MacArthur's headquarters...
Five hours after Emperor Hirohito broadcast to the nation, the Suzuki Cabinet resigned. "The new situation," said the aged departing Premier, "requires new men with fresh ideas...
...Emperor summoned his kinsman, pug-chinned Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, 57, to form a new Government. The appointment was doubly notable: it was made without the customary consultation between throne and elder statesmen; it was the first time ever that a member of the royal house had become Premier of Japan...
...Leader. The new Premier had scant background in politics or statesmanship. But his royal presence at the head of the Government could be a safeguard for the Imperial institution, and it might allay popular unrest. In the Japanese mind the Prince's relationship to the Emperor is threefold. He is Hirohito's cousin, because he is the grandson of a brother of one of Hirohito's great-grandfathers. He is Hirohito's uncle, because he is married to the sister of Hirohito's father (Emperor Taisho). He is Hirohito's inlaw, because...