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...mention of the Emperor was omitted, possibly because the Allies are still debating what to do with him; possibly to suggest that his fate and that of the peculiar institution he represents will depend on how the throne's influence is exerted...
Most of this debate raged in off-the-record secrecy, keeping the names of the disputants from both the Japs and the U.S. public. But a corollary of the argument was a public spectacle: the row over what to do with the Emperor. Undersecretary of State Joseph C. Grew, long the none-too-clairvoyant U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, was indelibly identified in most people's minds as a keep-the-Emperor man (although he insisted that his view was not so simple...
...dissolute Emperor, who often complained of its excessive weight (10 Ibs.), used the Imperial Seal to authenticate all official documents. Like the engraving on currency, its elaborate background carving was designed to prevent counterfeit...
Still standing near the Emperor's park were the condescendingly quaint log houses of the Russian Colony which Frederick William III had built for his Russian musicians. Now Red Army troops were quartered in the houses. Near by was the road where 30-year-old John Quincy Adams, traveling to take up his post as first...
...popular government,' a formula suitable to cover very diverse things. Still more significant is the fact that the manifesto does not even mention the Mikado.. . ." Explained Okano: Communists are opposed to monarchy, but the Alliance embraces people of various viewpoints; therefore the overthrow of the Emperor was not urged...