Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explode. Not until after the war did the U.S. know what had happened after that. The Japanese civilian workers had lost their heads. No one thought to shut the water-tight doors. Slowly, water welled into the Shinano. Six hours later, her Japanese skipper tucked a portrait of Emperor Hirohito under his arm, scrambled over the side and left the biggest carrier ever built to sink ignominiously, the victim of one torpedo...
Baldwin thinks that the Japanese have lost their awe of the Emperor, retain only respect and curiosity. He talked with Hirohito, found him "intelligent, quick and agreeable," but very much of a "man who had been managed. Hirohito always seemed to be looking for someone to give him a cue. To break the ice I brought candy for his kids. He got real folksy and asked me about my kids at home...
...nation." He applied the forceps with characteristic vigor. At Kwangju, Hodge, with his old cavalryman's gait, rolled up to a bearded elder, beamed: "You know me? Hodgey!" "Hodgey!" cried the elder, and Koreans took it up. He waved from the back platform of his train (formerly Hirohito's) to crowds who turned out from sleepy grass-thatched villages. When a children's brass band serenaded him, he was delighted, and told the 63rd Infantry to get the kids better clothes. At one station, when a baby cried, the General went over and pinched its cheek...
Item: Richard Strauss felt superior to the Nazis but not to their money, spent his time writing music for Goering's wedding and Hirohito's birthday. He was, when I visited him last summer, entrenched in Lausanne's most chic hotel, a stooped, white-haired man who was rather ashamed of his position in the world during the past 15 years...
...odes to daybreak entered last week in Japan's annual imperial poetry contest. The work of Emperor Hirohito himself, it was composed in a railway carriage enroute to the much-bombed town of Mito. The prizewinning poem (by a lesser author...