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...your Oct. 12 issue, you presented "a sample of the U.S. propaganda spread . . .. among Japanese in Hawaii," in which an inscription in Japanese is supposed to say that the Emperor "wants ... to know where those planes came from that bombed Tokyo...
...Banzai! Literally means "10,000 years" (ban: 10,000; zai: years). As Japs tell it to the Marines, it means "Long Live the Emperor!" or simply "Hooray...
...EMPEROR'S SNUFF BOX-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). How a harassed and suggestible young Englishwoman was saved from almost certain conviction as the slayer of her fiance's father by the supershrewd deductions of Dr. Kinross, specialist in criminal psychology. A brilliant exercise in detecting, a chilling adventure in careful, cold-blooded villainy, a sterling bit of craftsmanship even though one important bit of evidence is held back...
Married. Dom Duarte Nuño, 35, Austrian-born-and-educated pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans and Braganza, 28, his remote cousin, great granddaughter of the late Dom Pedro II, second and last Emperor of Brazil; in Petropolis, Brazilian summer resort founded by her family. Dom Duarte has never lived in Portugal. His grandfather was Dom Miguel I, deposed as King of Portugal in 1834. Among the bride's wedding presents: a $15,000 aquamarine and platinum necklace...
...Carthage. For some 700 years she was part of the empire of conquering Rome. After the decline of Rome, army after army crossed Malta, leaving their marks. Her gateway was scuffed by the feet of the world-Arabs, Normans, Sicilians, Germans, French, Spaniards-until Charles V. Holy Roman Emperor, ceded her to the pious, wandering Knights of St. John of Jerusalem...