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...other times Rommel is polite but ironic. In the order of the day with which he started this campaign he referred to King Vittorio Emanuele as the "Emperor of Abyssinia...
Akbar, a contemporary of Shakespeare, ruled as a Moslem-invader emperor, was India's first Great Mogul. "He was very autocratic, and had uncontrolled power," which he used to consolidate the nation. "In a sense he might be considered to be the father of Indian nationalism." In addition, he had other remarkable traits -among them "his boundless curiosity and his search for truth. He seems to have been convinced that truth was no monopoly of any religion or sect, and he proclaimed that his avowed principle was one of universal toleration in religion...
...special town meeting of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was called to order in Tokyo's monumental Diet Building last week by His Imperial Majesty Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan...
...sleeve. No recent book has probed the Japanese mind so deeply as the 20 pages of The Japanese Smile by Lafcadio Hearn, who became a Japanese subject, spent the rest of his life repudiating western civilization. Jujitsu. Yet "that mind," says Expert Kiralfy, "is our real enemy. Without it Emperor Hirohito's armies are just so many mobs, his naval squadrons just so many tons of steel." It is the jujitsu mind, he says-not especially resourceful or daring, but adept at feeling out the weaknesses or imbalance of an enemy's position, and at acting swiftly...
JAPAN'S DREAM OF WORLD EMPIRE- edited by Carl Crow-Harper ($1.25). First publication in book form of the Tanaka Memorial, the secret plan for Japanese domination of China (and eventually Asia) which Premier Baron Tanaka presented to the Japanese Emperor in 1927. Though the Japanese have always insisted that this purloined letter is a forgery, Editor Crow, like others who have studied the document, believes that it is genuine...