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...unprecedented open press conference, Hirohito was asked his opinion of the U.S. use of atomic bombs in 1945. The Emperor paused, then replied: "I feel sorry for the citizens of Hiroshima, but the bombing could not be helped, as the war at that time was going on." That extraordinary remark understandably touched sensitive nerves throughout Japan. Said one official of the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs: "It is exactly this kind of thinking that will eventually lead humanity to its total destruction...
...your interview with Journalist Oriana Fallaci [Oct. 20], I was shocked that she referred to me as a "dishonest woman journalist" because I once wrote that she had had three miscarriages. And I was even more shocked that TIME would print such a scurrilous remark...
...first three volumes in 1935, the Journal of Modern History sniffed: "A Gargantuan feast, shall we say? Or is it hash and not chopped up fine enough at that?" In 1947. however, in the postwar search for international understanding, Toynbee suddenly experienced the truth of the Victor Hugo remark about an idea whose time has come. A one-volume abridgment of the first six books of the study sold a phenomenal quarter of a million copies. (An abridgment of Vols. VII to X appeared...
...America. No one picked up on V.R. Lang's work until her husband and Lurie decided to collect a few poems and plays. Lurie, in particular, seems to feel that death cheated Lang out of a chance that she deserved to assert herself. Lang used to like Gauguin's remark that "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." But these pieces won't attract enough attention to retaliate for the author's shoddy treatment...
...minister of the state, and visiting Indian troops in the border areas opposite China and Pakistan. Government officials, who had been stung by previous criticism from Washington, were clearly pleased by Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan's talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Ford's remark. "We will welcome him here," said Mrs. Gandhi, "and he can see for himself...