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...most potent are anti-imperial Japanese taken prisoner by the Chinese armies. They are men who have convinced themselves that only a common cause with the Chinese can save the people of Japan. Their fiery opposition is not restricted to the Japanese militarists; it is directed also at the Emperor and all his myth.* They hope for a post-war Japanese republic...
...OWFs Elmer Davis has been directed by the State Department to take a contrary view. Last week Mr. Davis announced that the U.S. Government did not propose to attack Emperor Hirohito by radio. Said Mr. Davis: "There is every evidence to show that he has had nothing to do with the military for a long time. He is regarded as a god. Attacks against him would be resented, and would serve no useful purpose." Mr. Davis did not say whether he thinks attacks on the Japanese Emperor by Japanese are bad propaganda...
Ever since 1875 when Emperor Franz Josef shook his royal britches to the tune of the Afro-Cuban habanera, the world has imported a remarkably large part of its popular music from Cuba. But only in recent years has this import business mushroomed into a sizable industry. Captain of that industry today is a black-haired, rather chinless band leader, Xavier Cugat (rhymes with glue pot), who gets an annual gross of $500,000 purveying the Cuban rumba and other Latin-American rhythms to the U.S. public. Last week Importer Cugat was at the peak of his career...
...current newsreel, The Mask of Japan, reveals for the first time, to my visual knowledge, Toyama in person, leading thousands of Japs, and a score of Nazis, in cheering for the Emperor. It is perhaps the only sound track of Toyama's voice...
...must not absorb your space to handle the interpretation that "the Emperor might well emerge himself as a wise and statesman-like ruler," other than to express regret that a man whom I admire for years of factual reporting has joined the ranks of others who feel we could use the Emperor as a guidepost, that we must not broadcast anything overseas which would offend the son of heaven, and that we must renounce a military governorship or invasion of Japan. This unfortunate position ranks with the belief that Korea should be left to Japan as a mandate! This reflects...