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The gentle smile that flickered over Hirohito's bespectacled face gave no indication that he was anything but pleased at the democratic display. The celestial mystique that Japan's U.S. -dictated Constitution sought to destroy had been replaced by a new mystique; Hirohito's 18-day tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Son of Heaven, '54 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

Well fortified with edible portions of the lotus plant, symbol of indolence and forgetfulness, former Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his roving band of British Laborites last week craned their tourist rubbernecks at Red China. The entertainment provided at Peking was at least as lavish as that shown the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Lotus Eaters | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

The portrait opposite, which has been purchased by the Kress Foundation for Washington's National Gallery, proves the point. Napoleon stands plump and solemn in the white satiny knickers and gold epaulets of a general of the Chasseurs of his own Imperial Guard. He wears dangling on a red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: KNICKERED EAGLE | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Still unsettled was the major source of irritation between the two nations: possession of western New Guinea, which is still under Dutch rule. The infant Indonesian government, which has trouble enough trying to maintain order over its 78 million people, demands western New Guinea too. But The Netherlands refuses to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: End of the Union | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

IRISH Poet Thomas Moore composed this rhymed raspberry on a visit to Washington in 1804. During the century and a half since then, the seers Moore sneered at have been vindicated. Washington is still a long way from the condition of Imperial Rome-where the inanimate populace came at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: VISIONARIES' CAPITAL | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

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