Word: hirohito
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...very hour-about midnight Aug. 13-when the Japanese warlords were bowing to Hirohito's surrender decision, Joseph Stalin moved toward a new era in east Asian politics. Abruptly leaving a Moscow banquet for General Eisenhower, Stalin hurried to the final conference on a 30-year Sino-Russian pact...
Listeners to NBC's key Manhattan station, WEAF, one day last week heard Newscaster Don Goddard say: "... a rumor came bounding into the newsroom. Emperor Hirohito is one of those in Japan who has committed harakiri...
Self-Reproach. Next day Hirohito broadcast an Imperial Rescript to his nation: "Despite the best that has been done by everyone . . . the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage. . . . Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb. . . . We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering the insufferable...
Five hours after Emperor Hirohito broadcast to the nation, the Suzuki Cabinet resigned. "The new situation," said the aged departing Premier, "requires new men with fresh ideas...
...Premier had scant background in politics or statesmanship. But his royal presence at the head of the Government could be a safeguard for the Imperial institution, and it might allay popular unrest. In the Japanese mind the Prince's relationship to the Emperor is threefold. He is Hirohito's cousin, because he is the grandson of a brother of one of Hirohito's great-grandfathers. He is Hirohito's uncle, because he is married to the sister of Hirohito's father (Emperor Taisho). He is Hirohito's inlaw, because his son is the husband...