Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain (later Rear Admiral) Hideo Hiraide who broke the news to the Japanese people on Dec. 7, 1941: "In the early morning, units of the imperial navy launched an attack on Pearl Harbor ... Two battleships sunk, four severely damaged . . ." Last week Admiral Hiraide and 451 others, put on a war-criminal purge list in 1946 by General Douglas MacArthur, were de-purged by the Japanese government. Admiral Hiraide died in 1948, but his de-purging is more than a posthumous attempt to blot out the stain on the family escutcheon. Under the original stiff occupation rules, purged men and their...
Another Japanese admiral turned up in the news last week, and offered more spectacular proof of changing times. Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's special "peace envoy" in Washington on Pearl Harbor Day, showed up at the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka to attend a ceremony aboard the battleship Wisconsin. He came to see his old friend, Vice Admiral Robert P. Briscoe, take over command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet from Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin. Said Nomura, who is still on the purge list: "I have always admired the American Navy. It was wonderful talking to old friends about...
Tokyo announced that Admiral Nomura, the peace-talking Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. at the time of Pearl Harbor, was among those listed to be taken off the political purge roll, provided the occupation authorities approve...
Replied Mayor la Pira: "Florence"is a pearl of matchless beauty. Its defense is one of the fundamentals of this administration." At week's end, the city council had ordered work stopped on a nine-story building, was considering demolition of its upper stories to bring it into harmony with the Florence sky line...
...eared picture of Hawaii which most mainlanders (including Senators) carry around in their minds. According to the cliché, Hawaii is the home of hula dancers, ukulele players and dark-skinned surf riders, the stage for potential treason from the inscrutable Oriental-American, the impregnable bastion of Pearl Harbor, and the domain of those ancient monopolists, the Big Five...