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Sawing away at each other's proposals, nailing up their compromises, the San Francisco conferees worked hard & long. Among them were heroes and shysters, gentlemen and revolutionaries, statesmen and clowns. For good or ill, the world would remember what they did. It would even remember who some of them were...
...elder statesmen close to the throne were men of western ideas, like astute Prince Saionji, who promoted a Japanese version of parliamentarianism and constitutional monarchy. In 1921, with their support, Crown Prince Hirohito decided to go abroad. Never before had an imperial Heir Apparent left the Land of the Gods. Shinto jingoists threatened to fling themselves in fanatic immolation under the train that bore the Crown Prince to his ship. But Hirohito was not deterred, and this 20th Century form of hara-kiri did not take place...
This understanding did not deter him from sanctifying the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the invasion of North China in 1937, the blow at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The totalitarian forces which had shaped his state shaped his place in it. The westernized elder statesmen and their successors-men like Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma-were pushed into the background by swashbuckling generals and admirals, like Kenji Doihara, Hideki Tojo, Isozoku Yamamoto. Hirohito's most intimate counselors in the Imperial Household, nobles like the Marquis Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and ex-Grand Chamberlain Kantaro Suzuki...
Cheers for Victory. Only the Allied statesmen were silent. From Paris came the announcement that the A.P. had been suspended from filing any further news from the European Theater of Operations. A few took this as an indication that A.P. might have been wrong. But A.P., hot under the collar and sure of its facts, rushed in to join the issue. Cried A.P. President Kent Cooper, determined crusader for freedom of the press: "This suppression cuts squarely across the fundamental rights respecting freedom of information. . . . Vigorous representations have been made. . . . The right of peoples everywhere to know is at stake...
...Flood's guests had a fifty-fifty week. On the main business of the conference-the drafting of a charter for a world organization-the Big Three statesmen and their Big Four partner, China's T. V. Soong, made astonishing progress. On the symbolic, overshadowing issue of Poland, the Big Three had to admit an appalling failure...