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...Flowers. A writer expressed the belief that Americans wanted to understand Japan better. The art of ceremonial tea-making and flower arrangements, he said hopefully, were "in fashion among the society class of America...
General Anami was a military mystic. He once called on Japan's soldiers "to defend the Imperial land even after death with your souls." When he heard the news of his son's death in battle, his only visible emotion was to crush a flower bud in his hand. He held out against surrender. Before committing harakiri, he wrote a farewell to his Emperor ("I humbly beg . . . pardon ... for my great sins") and a poem...
Reconversion. In Brooklyn, the U.S. Office of Surplus Property offered for sale 5,000 incendiary -bomb containers. Suggested use : flower boxes or toy chests...
...Flower Pots in the Ruins. On the east side, where the workers live and the Russians rule, the damage is greater than in the west. This part of Berlin was fought through, and some of its streets are still impassable. For block after block the houses look gutted, but so stubbornly do buildings resist destruction that in many of these houses two or three rooms are still occupied, and there are even flower pots in some of the windows...
...this week Corporal Newman still lived, still grinned faintly as he opened hundreds of letters and telegrams from newspaper readers all over the U.S. Into his flower-banked room walked a ray of hope, one Connie Nolan of Coleman. Tex. Nolan had gone down to 87 pounds at Cabanatuan, was back to 143, was sure Jim Newman could...