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...First Vittorio Emanuele proclaimed: "Italians! I take over . . . the command of all armed forces. . . ." Then Pietro Badoglio proclaimed: "Italians! By order of His Majesty ... I take over the military government of the country with full powers. The war goes on.. . . Let us close our ranks around the King Emperor, the living soul of the fatherland. . . . Long live Italy! Long live the King...
...sastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along the firing line for hours seeking death. It never found him. At last, "muttering that they must stop the guns, that they must cease firing, that there must be no more bloodshed," Napoleon III surrendered with 80,000 men. Two months later...
Postwar planners seem to be unanimous in wanting to assure the Japanese people that we meditate no harm to their God-Emperor. It is doubtless true that Hirohito is personally an inoffensive little man, and that he had little or nothing to do with the present Japanese program of conquest.* But the program is being pushed in his name and that of his house, and it would seem that the Japanese people are thoroughly sold on the idea of his divinity, and of their duty to bring all people under his rule...
...whole heavenly family; ... 2) by the forcible removal of the whole heavenly outfit to America, where it could serve as the permanent hostage ... for the good behavior of the Japanese people. . . . We might get a little revenue on the side by charging admission to see the God-Emperor...
...Japan will gather this week for an Extraordinary Session-perhaps the most momentous since the Extraordinary Diet that met in the month before Pearl Harbor. A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers. There, in lonely, myopic state, will perch the Emperor Hirohito. The honorable members, and the uniformed guards who see that representatives do not fall asleep, will bow their heads docilely as the Son of Heaven, flanked by Princes of the Blood, declares their meeting open...