Word: hirohito
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Around the President in Washington, and over the Allied world, a great debate raged. A doughface in the Philippines yelled: "Let 'em keep their Emperor-I'll throw in a pair of pants!" Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, who had said that he would like to hang Hirohito and ride his white horse through ruined Tokyo, bellowed "No!" when asked if he had changed his opinion. Senators divided-"Execute him . . . Keep him." Suddenly, the Imperial issue was the issue of the Pacific peace. Upon it, the life or death of many men was about to turn...
...high-command communiquí announcing renewed offensives on all fronts, then withdrew it. The Emperor called in Foreign Minister Togo. A Tokyo radio operator, chatting with a station in Switzerland, said that an important message was expected but still unfiled. The Japanese press played up two possible successors to Hirohito: his eleven-year-old son, Crown Prince Akihito, and his 40-year-old brother, Prince Takamatsu. Radio Tokyo referred vaguely but constantly to the comings & goings of the Emperor's elder statesmen...
...dawn on Friday, but dusk for Dai Nippon. Emperor Hirohito had approved the surrender proposal to the Allies. Five days before, the Japanese radio still talked of 100 years' resistance, and there seemed little question of Japan's ability to hold out for months at least. Then in shattering succession came atomic bombing and the Russian declaration of war. The concussion destroyed more than Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Waiting for Hirohito. Whether or not this report was wholly true, much of it certainly was. This was the background against which the Japanese mood, the feeling of the nation toward the war, and (in the absence of organized opposition to the warmakers) their special attitude toward the Emperor, might be viewed...
Admiral William F. Halsey, who had already been promised a saddle for his projected ride on Hirohito's white horse (TIME, July 2), heard that a pair of handmade spurs were in the offing. Vernon L. Fertig, Machinist's Mate 3/C, had been working on the spurs for more than four months, wrote wistfully from the Aleutians: "I'd like to be there to saddle the horse...