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...time of Japan's final, unconditional surrender, then the men fighting the steel-&-fire war would cheer it on. But they might properly raise a question: how unconditional is unconditional? And, in its concentration on the gumbatsu, is this campaign aiming for a surrender that would preserve the emperor system, in a Japan untouched by war except for air attacks? Few men who have fought in the Pacific would welcome any peace that let Japan off the hook this time, still possessed of its insane national-religious dream of world destiny, still able to try again in another...
...through a five-hour emergency session of his Cabinet. The same day he talked long and earnestly with flinty General Jiro Minami, boss of the ultra-totalitarian Political Association of Great Japan. Then he doddered on across the moat of the partly burned Palace to bow low before Emperor Hirohito and make a respectful report. At the Meiji and Yasakuni shrines he prayed for the destruction of his country's enemies. Finally, with the Emperor looking on, he stood before an extraordinary session of the Diet and declared...
...your interesting article on the God-Emperor of Japan [TIME, May 21], you refer to Ambassador Grew's analogy of the Japanese society as a beehive with the Emperor as the queen bee. You say: "The implications of this analogy are clear. The Emperor institution . . . must be retained to save the Japanese nation from disintegration...
...seems to me that the opposite implication can be found in the analogy, namely, that the Emperor is to be destroyed if we want to destroy the present anachronistic Japanese society. The word "disintegration" a la beehive seems to scare Mr. Grew. Obviously all Japanese would not wither and die when the Emperor is disposed of, as the hive does when the queen dies. What would happen...
...opens in the Caribbean monarch's castle, the cinema version goes back to fill in what O'Neill left to the imagination. Covering his days as a pullman porter, his murder of a vindictive rival, his escape from a chain gang, and usurping of power on a tropical isle. "Emperor Jones" is almost over before O'Neill's story begins...