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...Japanese. "We intend to teach the Japanese, who have not been defeated in modern history, that they can be defeated. . . . We intend to demonstrate to them that [their Emperor's] policies are not evolved in the remote stillnesses of Heaven but in the councils of palace sycophants and ambitious generals; and that they are founded on error and bring disaster...
Uneasy Japan. Tojo's decrees were but the latest step in a long campaign of regimentation. The Emperor himself has become a whip with which the Army urges the worker to still greater effort, the soldier to still greater sacrifice...
...certain aspects the production drops to the mundane. First, there is the question of the almost "Emperor Jones" like musical interludes, especially the drum beats in Othello's moments of rage. Music is necessary, to be sure, for "Othello," unlike most of Shakespeare's tragedies, has very little comedy--even with the addition of an over-ridiculed Roderigo. Therefore, the music provides the needed break in tenseness of the play. It is too bad, however, that there is not an adequate orchestra...
...turbulent Middle Ages many a Pope was imprisoned or murdered by temporal powers. In 1527 the army of Emperor Charles V jailed Pope Clement VII for seven months in the castle of St. Angelo. In 1809 Emperor Napoleon kidnapped Pius VII, brought him to Fontainebleau, held him in custody until the Empire's fall...
...Vancouver schools. He made a brilliant record at the Universities of British Columbia and California, M.I.T. and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (TIME, Aug. 9), was recommended to Smith by a Chinese physicist, Miss Chien Shiung Wu. In perfect English, Kusaka declared his opposition to the Emperor of Japan but, as shy as he was able, preferred not to enter the controversy. The staid Springfield Republican, said: "Come, let us be reasonable. The protest was . . . injudicious. . . .Tolerance . . . will do no harm...