Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something Borrowed. Emperor Meiji's 1889 Constitution had proclaimed that "We [the Emperor] have inherited from Our Ancestors the rights of sovereignty . . . and We shall bequeath them to Our descendants." MacArthurian rhetoric, linking the phrases of Jefferson, Lincoln, and F.D.R., gave Japan a new ruler. "We, the Japanese people . . . do proclaim the sovereignty of the people's will." The Emperor was reduced to a "symbol of the state and of the unity of the people's will." Young Prince Akihito may still inherit a throne, but not a seat of power...
...procession sped across the bomb-scarred wasteland from Tokyo to Yokohama. Through his thick glasses Hirohito gazed on his country's devastation. Along the bumpy route his people-shabby, shivering, shambling-greeted their ruler's bizarre cavalcade with bewildered reverence...
...uncle Creon is her antagonist--Creon, as the Chorus says, the Chorus the ruler who loves to rule. At first she hates him because he has forbidden her brother's burial, but after one tremendous scene in which she withstands his every nuance of guile she realizes that his evil goes far beyond the personal level, and she dies for a greater cause than her first...
...Allied order, Shintoism had been disclaimed as Japan's state religion. Hirohito now carried the process a revolutionary step farther. He threw overboard the whole fantastic doctrine that the Japanese people and their ruler are divine, and that they have a divine mission of world conquest. This doctrine, as zealously inculcated as Nazi ideas in Nazi Germany, had been the mainspring for half a century of Kamikaze fanaticism and grandiose visions...
...Stature. More perhaps than any other living ruler, he is the embodiment of his country. And now both King and Canada had reached another milestone. This week by Act of Parliament, for domestic purposes, Canada declared the war against the Axis officially ended and the nation was once again on a peace footing. And, as he had for more than 18 years, Bachelor King would continue to lead his country. He had led it to Britain's rescue in the war; he had led it through to victory ; now he would lead it out of war and well along...