Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hirohito has been inaccessible to Allied correspondents since last September, when the U.P.'s Hugh Baillie and New York Timesman Frank Kluckhohn interviewed him, severally. But the press does not give up. Every week one crafty newsman, who knows the Emperor's fondness for sweets, sends a 3-lb. box of candy to the Palace with a request for an interview. So far, no dice. "The Emperor's first interviews," explains an Imperial Household official, "have still left a bitter taste with his advisers...
...ultimatum. The negotiations, as events eleven days later proved, were over. On Nov. 30 Churchill again urged the President by cable to warn the Japs that any further aggression would "lead immediately to the gravest consequences"; instead, Franklin Roosevelt sent his now-famous personal appeal to Emperor Hirohito...
...Hirohito, keeping abreast of the times, packed his Army and Navy uniforms in mothballs, stored his samurai sword...
...this was too much for Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni's still-conservative surrender Cabinet. The Prince called on his cousin, the Emperor, and asked him to accept the Cabinet's resignation. Said Cousin Hirohito: "It is good and I accept...
...Emperor gossiped cozily (the reporters had agreed not to shoot questions at him). Hirohito marveled that Baillie had reached Japan from the U.S. in four days, asked about U.S. baseball in wartime and remarked that Jap players were a little out of practice. Like Kluckhohn, Baillie had had to submit his questions in advance, was handed the carefully prepared answers on court stationery when he left...