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...obedience to the gracious command of His Majesty the Emperor...
Truman talked over that condition with other callers, and before the day was out his attitude was well known. He was inclined to make no concessions whatsoever to His Majesty the Emperor (the earthy President would normally think of the Son of Heaven as "that bastard"). Come hell or high water, Harry Truman was in a mood to demand complete surrender, qualified only by the original Potsdam terms and their predecessor, the 1944 Cairo Declaration...
Around the President in Washington, and over the Allied world, a great debate raged. A doughface in the Philippines yelled: "Let 'em keep their Emperor-I'll throw in a pair of pants!" Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, who had said that he would like to hang Hirohito and ride his white horse through ruined Tokyo, bellowed "No!" when asked if he had changed his opinion. Senators divided-"Execute him . . . Keep him." Suddenly, the Imperial issue was the issue of the Pacific peace. Upon it, the life or death of many men was about to turn...
When the old Emperor died in 1862, so the story goes, his favorite concubine Yehonala sent a eunuch to the imperial death-chamber to steal the seal. Her rivals had won the dying Emperor's signature to papers granting them regency over the infant heir, but without the seal's imprint the documents were invalid. The ambitious Yehonala, better known as the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, seized the Manchu throne for herself. For 47 years she made and broke emperors at her will.* It was China's last glittering, decadent blaze of imperial glory...
...last choice, a two-year-old infant, is now Henry Pu Yi, Emperor of Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo...