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...Admiral Yonai was himself amazed at the Emperor's choice, the people of Japan were more so. The White Elephant was certainly a dark horse. The appointment of General Shunroku Hata, War Minister in the fallen Cabinet, had been so generally taken for granted that afternoon that newspapers came out with extras announcing his appointment as a fact. Office seekers prematurely crowded the Hata home to congratulate...
...Forcing Emperor Henry Pu-yi to surrender...
...Emperor of Japan is not a man. He is 39 years old, has six human children, weighs about 135 pounds, eats, sleeps and fans himself; but he is not a man. Hirohito, Son of the Sun Goddess, is a lot of things. He is fierce samurai battles, snowcapped volcanoes, the flowering mimosa, fat carp in mountain pools. He is exaggerated politeness, intense ambition, orchidaceous sensitivity. He is the rising sun. He is also a big navy, and a crying need for cheap rice and living space. He embraces Japan. He is Japan...
...back in the good old days when there was still Little Father Tsar to do all the purging in holy Russia. It was in the idyllic sixties, when maidens still raved of fauns and peasant-song, that a handsome young Emperor of all the Russias bound his fate to that of an impetuous little princess who had grown up in hatred of "all the Romanovs...
...work of scholarship or of telling a story. If he tells a story he might as well call it fiction because that it will largely be. As such it may nevertheless be an illuminating piece of historical literature, as are Robert Graves's two stories of a Roman emperor (I, Claudius and Claudius, the God). Or it may reach the second-rate level of a plausible, readable and honest tale like The Star-Gazer, which is a freely fictional novel of the life of Galileo...