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The Imperial Japanese Navy was dead. Of the world's third largest fleet, which once had ranked close behind those of the U.S. and Britain, there was nothing left on the surface but a few battered hulks, almost beyond repair, plus perhaps a division of three cruisers and two...
Gone was the battle line which had dominated the Pacific in the first months after Pearl Harbor. The manner of its passing revealed the inherent weakness of Japan's imperial aspirations; Japan's sea lords, with all their bombast, had never dared commit the battle fleet as a...
Eslanda saw everything, from the local jail, which was "clean, pleasant and sanitary," to "lovable pygmies." At last a 120-year-old native, "her eyes glazed with a film of age," insisted that "my hair, eyes, nose, and 'especially my spirit' were pure African." But while Eslanda was...
When the old Emperor died in 1862, so the story goes, his favorite concubine Yehonala sent a eunuch to the imperial death-chamber to steal the seal. Her rivals had won the dying Emperor's signature to papers granting them regency over the infant heir, but without the seal...
In San Francisco last week Gump's, the art dealers who sold the seal to Seattle's Museum in 1935, had forgotten where they acquired it. But if it is truly the lost seal (as Chinese Consul Kiang Yi-seng and the Museum's Director, Dr. Richard...