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...beginning of a new period of peaceful enlightenment and democracy. But in the same issue it reported: "Thirty-two members, including one woman, of patriotic nationalistic organizations are so far known to have committed suicide in Tokyo in a true patriotic spirit, eager to apologize to the Throne for their inability...
...King's Name. Precisely at 11 a.m. the King and Queen entered and seated themselves on the newly gilded thrones, the Queen's a little smaller than the King's. Heralds, kings-of-arms and pursuivants grouped themselves about. In a clear voice, with his stutter scarcely noticeable, the King read the Speech from the Throne. It was one of the most remarkable speeches ever uttered by any King. Written and repeatedly revised by Prime Minister Attlee, it proclaimed in the King's name (his private views are never proclaimed) the first steps in the Socialist...
Domei described the scene at which Emperor Hirohito decided to surrender to the Allies: "On the personal initiative of His Majesty, an historical conference was held before the Throne at the Imperial Palace. . . . The conference was attended by Premier Baron Kantaro Suzuki and all other ministers...
...Emperor summoned his kinsman, pug-chinned Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, 57, to form a new Government. The appointment was doubly notable: it was made without the customary consultation between throne and elder statesmen; it was the first time ever that a member of the royal house had become Premier of Japan...
Pasha in the Desert. Morris soon sailed for home. Eaton quickly followed, to promote his own plan for the conquest of Tripoli. He proposed to place on the throne of Tripoli a pusillanimous and vacillating ex-Pasha, Hamet Karamanli, whose bloodthirsty younger brother Yusuf reigned supreme after having murdered one relative and frightened his rabbity senior away...