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More important - particularly to the Big Three meeting in Potsdam - was the weight of high explosives being dumped on Japanese targets. Halsey roamed ostentatiously up & down the Emperor's coastline in the foul weather which seems to attach itself to the Third Fleet. The B-29s from the Marianas struck two great blows, firing four cities each time...
...Spirit & the Flute. In Potsdam's rococo rooms the great Emperor Frederick had played his flute (not badly); in its disciplined gardens he had schemed to confuse and divide his enemies. Since then, Potsdam had symbolized much that was Germany. When old Paul von Hindenburg stood in Potsdam's Garrison Church on March 21, 1933, and handed his country over to the Nazis, he bade them rule in the spirit of Potsdam. Now the Garrison Church was ein Trümmerhaufen - a rubble heap...
There is no precedent in modern Japanese history for direct personal rule by the Emperor. Parliament empowered Hirohito to rule with dictatorial powers last month. What drove Japanese leaders to take this step is not certain. It may be that there is agitation in Japan-unrest and longing for peace. To unite the people for a resistance at home, it may have been necessary to invoke the Emperor's personal prestige...
...this was a dangerous step for Japanese leaders to take, for it compromised the throne. Since the people have been told that the Emperor is ruling them personally, it would be difficult for Hirohito not to assume responsibility for defeat. Apparently the war lords were ready to drag the Emperor down with them. Hirohito would be finished, and so would the whole Imperial institution. The Japanese war lords could scarcely have reached this decision except from desperation...
Tall and broad, with the heavy, prominent features and classical tastes of a Roman emperor, Rhodes also combined the characteristics of an Elizabethan freebooter, a financial tycoon, and a humorless, aoth-Century dictator. "I contend," he said, "that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race." He would lay his big hand on a map of Africa, printed with the colors of many nations, and cry: "I want to see it all red, all red!" He envisioned an Anglo-North American empire that...