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Emperor Hirohito, the living god and archpriest of Shinto, will soon embrace Christianity. This startling prediction was made last week by staid Professor Shigeru Nambara, president of Tokyo's Imperial University. Ever since their defeat, the Emperor and all his imperial household have been seriously studying Christian theology.
That the British Raj could ever forgive U Saw seemed possible only to those who know how devious is the course of empire and how tough the imperial going has been in Burma since it was liberated from the Japs.
For the first time, the Son of Heaven held a press conference. Strolling the palace grounds, he met (by carefully arranged coincidence) six aging Japanese newsmen who had "covered" the Imperial household for a decade, with never an audience. They bowed low. Asked the Emperor: Did the newsmen have enough...
On awkward sea legs, a stubby (5 ft. 2 in.) Japanese shambled last week into a white-walled ordnance classroom at the Washington Navy Yard. He wore a poor-quality, ill-fitting blue suit; there was nothing in his bearing or his sagjawed face, as expressionless as a teak deck...
The French Empire shrank slightly last week. With Gallic grace, France agreed to step out of Syria and the Lebanon-and the Near East. Thus an imperial association which lasted for a generation came, at least temporarily, to a close.