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...Kentucky's Representative Andrew J. May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, called on the entire Fleet to steam into Tokyo harbor and blow the city to bits. Cried Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "We'll hold the rats responsible - from the Emperor down to the lowest ditchdigger - for a million years...
Since Pearl Harbor, the Emperor has all but abandoned sessions with the Privy Council (Inner Cabinet); now he confers constantly with top-rank military leaders, attends all meetings at the Imperial Military Staff Headquarters. The Japanese press has recorded his strict orders that he be awakened at any hour of the night to hear important political or military news. At daily religious ceremonies, he wears the traditional silken robes. But at all other times, he wears his bemedaled uniform, symbolizing Imperial support of the war (TIME...
Last week the State Department's grey, granite-jawed Joseph C. Grew, longtime U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, spoke up "unofficially" in favor of letting the Japanese people keep their symbolic Mikado. Said he: "The Emperor did not want war." Once the military clique surrounding the throne is defeated, the fanatical cult of Shinto "can be an asset, not a liability...
...section of official opinion in the U.S. holds that Japan's Emperor Hirohito should be spared from propaganda and other attack, preserved as the postwar ruler of defeated Japan (see p. 19). Crux of this argument: the Emperor was against war with the U.S., resisted the actions of his war lords...
...Tokyo last week, Emperor Hirohito attended the opening of the 84th session of the Japanese Diet, listened to the reading of his imperial rescript. The message praised: 1) "The warriors who represent us"; 2) "Our subjects exerting their efforts in production"; 3) "The great undertaking in East Asia. . . ." It was the Son of Heaven's strongest endorsement of his war lords. In effect, he clothed them with imperial authority, sanctioned their actions...