Word: mikados
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here's a pretty state of things! Here's a pretty how-de-do!"-The Mikado...
...Japan, but against capitalism and the 'gigantic trusts' which it declared responsible for the war. . . . It demanded the creation of a 'popular government,' a formula suitable to cover very diverse things. Still more significant is the fact that the manifesto does not even mention the Mikado.. . ." Explained Okano: Communists are opposed to monarchy, but the Alliance embraces people of various viewpoints; therefore the overthrow of the Emperor was not urged...
Said Nicolaevsky: "The participation of both Okano and Ozaki in the Alliance proves Stalin's willingness to avail himself of every Japanese supporter of an agreement with Russia. The silence about the Mikado shows that no special importance is attributed to the problem of monarchy. . . . The Alliance's basic line . . . consists in forming Japanese cadres ready to support Stalin's Eastern policy, and in averting . . . British and American predominance in China after...
...this sense, the war against Japan was inevitably a war against its Emperor. In this sense, the great U.S. military redeployment from West to East was aimed directly at the myth of the divine Mikado, ruling a divine nation on the warpath. Grimy U.S. soldiers and marines who were last week digging out their diehard enemy from the caverns of Okinawa and Luzon were just as surely digging out this myth from the dark corners of the Japanese mind...
...World War II, General of the Army MacArthur will have a field of immense scope for his strategic and tactical brilliance. And millions of his fellow-countrymen who know little of the art of war would be well pleased to see him take, as symbol of full surrender, the Mikado's sword...