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Unlike Hollywood's recent flasco in a production of "The Hiry Ape," an old English movie version of "The Emperor Jones" retains the essential theme of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy, and by abridging it is able to include a wider period Brutus Jones's life leading up to his fight through the jungle...
...period: half war and half peace. The Army cut back its plane production program by 17,000 planes, saving $4 billions, and temporarily throwing thousands out of work. The next day, fire bombs from 500 Superforts set flames that roared and crackled through Tokyo, licking the edge of the Emperor's palace...
Japan was appalled. By Tokyo's account, Premier Kantaro Suzuki "saw with his own eyes" how flames had hit the sanctified preserve, hastened to apologize to the Emperor for the "inexcusable outrage," then called an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet and issued a "reverent statement relative to the burning of the Imperial Palace." Other broadcasts wailed that "the greater part of metropolitan Tokyo" was "literally scorched to the ground." To the Japanese people Suzuki sadly announced: "Our beautiful capital must be completely replanned from a bare start...
Ginza Goes. Actually Emperor Hirohito's property was only touched-this time. The Ginza, Tokyo's retail thoroughfare (once called "the busiest, noisiest, unhandsomest and most flamboyant of metropolitan streets"), was reported a mass of flames. Tokyo Week has cost the U.S. 31 Superfortresses or $18,600,000 in equipment and something for which there was no price-the lives of about 350 men. Since the B-29 attacks began, six months ago, the U.S. had lost 74 Superfortresses, carrying some 800 airmen. Japan had lost more than one-fifth of its capital...
...When TIME put Hirohito on its cover in 1932, the Japanese made the following request: "Let copies of the present issue lie face upward on all tables; let no object be placed upon the likeness of the Emperor...