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...words last week with Georgy Zarubin, emissary of the biggest colonial power on earth. "This is hallowed ground," Mrs. John Henderson, a guide, explained to Soviet Ambassador Zarubin, who was there with 30 fellow diplomats for the 180th anniversary celebration of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. "This is a shrine to the principles of freedom," she went on, "and for us Americans the greatest meaning, the greatest joy and the greatest pride lies in the knowledge that this shrine which is ours is not ours only, but for freedom-loving peoples all over the world. And they come here from...
Punchy Protest. Not everyone was so misty-eyed. One evening last week Manchester's ornate old Free Trade Hall, a familiar shrine of well-intentioned protests, was jammed with 2,500 Britons and East European refugees (including the famed Polish World War II General Anders), who had gathered at a shilling a head to protest the forthcoming visit of Russians Khrushchev and Bulganin. The meeting was called by waspish Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge.* Resolving with a group of friends to "do something about these murderers coming here," Muggeridge had tried to rent London's own sedate Albert Hall...
...than 8,000,000), bustling and gaudily expensive a city (a first-rate geisha party runs up to $60 per person) as any on earth. Yet a few miles outside, Japan goes back centuries to a bygone world of tiny, meticulously tilled farms, tranquil lotus ponds and brilliantly colored shrines and temples. The finest temples are at Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine is set in a fairyland of rugged mountains, waterfalls and virgin forests. Tourists also...
...Priest!" After World War II, by occupation order, shrine Shinto was disestablished. "The sponsorship, support, perpetuation, control and dissemination of Shinto by Japanese . . . will cease immediately," decreed General MacArthur. And on New Year's Day of 1946, the 124th Emperor of Japan, descended from the Sun Goddess, broadcast to his shocked people that his divine ancestry was "mere myth and legend...
Priests were thrown off the public payroll, official visits by public dignitaries to shrines were forbidden, schoolchildren's pilgrimages were stopped. Shrine attendance dropped 50% to 70%; the gods, in failing to protect their country, had lost face. Many shrines had to rent out space to businesses-some even rented their grounds to carnival operators who staged strip shows. Said one embittered priest in Nagoya of postwar Shintoists: "After a ceremony, they say, 'Hey priest, how much do I owe you?' In the old days the money would have been carefully wrapped in paper as a token...