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...especially in its military workings. Americans have never been very curious about the Japanese mind, and the spate of books on Japan (with the notable exception of Hugh Byas' The Japanese En-emy} has not been very helpful. They have reported Japanese militarism, atrocities, the absurdities of Emperor worship, the inflammability of Japan's paper cities, the inability of Japanese industry to implement a modern war. Few recent books have caught the Japanese character...
...Japanese Diet theoretically has full legislative power and control over finance. Actually it is little more than a grand-scale sounding board for public opinion. The Emperor can dissolve the lower house at any time, and has often done so at the behest of the Premier and Cabinet. The Cabinet is not responsible to the Diet, but to the Emperor. And the Cabinet is virtually at the mercy of the Army & Navy...
...church received a major relic last week when Archbishop Francis J. Spellman presented to the parish church of St. Helena in The Bronx a piece of the True Cross miraculously discovered on Calvary on May 3, A.D. 326, by St. Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome. Said the Archbishop: "This . ... relic of the True Cross [is] one of the largest pieces outside St. Peter's in Rome and the Church of St. John of the Cross in Jerusalem. It was verified as a true relic 126 years ago in Rome...
Fighting Speech. Worse was to come. That afternoon up rose Nevada's handsome, young (35) Senator Berkeley L. Bunker, to deliver the most blazing speech made yet in Congress against Emperor Jones's bureaucratic empire...
Senator Bunker is a serious Young Democrat, a Mormon Bishop who was ap pointed to the Senate in 1940, who had heretofore held his peace while learning the ropes. But to Emperor Jones, he was just an annoying young squirt. Jones dashed off a hot reply...