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...spring and warmer weather came to Tokyo, U.S. soldiers strolled arm in arm with Japanese girls along the carp-filled Imperial moat, lolled amorously on the grass of Hibiya Park, made love in the back of Army jeeps. It was hard to remember that they had once been scheduled to fight their way into Honshu at just this season. But Eighth Army commander Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger remembered...
...oxford-grey topcoat, a pearl-grey felt hat which looked as if it had been sat upon, a dark business suit, blue shirt and white collar, the new Hirohito sallied forth on his first campaign tour. It was only his third peek at the world outside his carp-filled moat since the war's end. He left the palace grounds sitting bolt upright in a big, black Mercedes-Benz. Behind streamed a caravan of 40 other cars...
Seven hours after he had crossed the moat, Hirohito returned to the palace. He had seen more people and more people had seen him that day than ever before. A few would think he had lost face, but most were pleased with the Emperor's new tactics. Hirohito knew what he was doing...
...people, killed eight. They meant that Britain in a military (and hence in a political) sense had almost ceased to be an island, that the North Sea, Dover Strait and the English Channel, which for centuries had served England "in the office of a wall, or as a moat defensive to a house," had for purpose of war shriveled to a trickle. Henceforth, unless a defense as effective as rocket bombs could be developed, Britain was within shattering range of any aggressive European power...
...through a round of desperate political activity. One day he sat through a five-hour emergency session of his Cabinet. The same day he talked long and earnestly with flinty General Jiro Minami, boss of the ultra-totalitarian Political Association of Great Japan. Then he doddered on across the moat of the partly burned Palace to bow low before Emperor Hirohito and make a respectful report. At the Meiji and Yasakuni shrines he prayed for the destruction of his country's enemies. Finally, with the Emperor looking on, he stood before an extraordinary session of the Diet and declared...