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"THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1947.
How Has Hirohito Fored In The Regime Imposed By Gen. MacArthur. This Article Discusses the
SWITCH FROM DIETY
poller posts.
The
TO DEMOCRACY
By Denis Warner
*
the Osaka
used
Family.
the
Across the stone bridge that cold winter they are acres of cosy, waits at a platform once spans the chocolate waters of the warruth. But the true picture is only by the Imperial
Special Disrespectful GIS now *have Imperial Moat and separates the not nearly so pleasant. brou Plaza from the Imperial Invitations and orders are requir- trampled the red carpet, that Palace a number of motor cars of led to the gates of the palace, winds from the, Emperor's en- over-mature vintage, and notable Americans, British Commonwealth trance through the hideous, bomb for the cloudia of deuse white troops and Japanese are all thera damaged red brick station: Even. “amake emitted from their charcoal to keep out the intruder.
commoners stroll on the platform. burners, passed slowly between Once you have passed through But let there be no mistake the American and New Zealand the portals clutching your mach-about the position the Emperor guardamen an the Japariesu presented. pasя the mirago of holds in the arteem of his people.
splendor quickly passes. The Ent-God or mortal, he remains cars carried 51 princea peror's residence was burnt in very heart of Japan. Million and princesses of the Imperial an air raid: so was the great have seen him; thousands have Family, who had come to dine hall used for Imperial receptions. spoken to him. "Now that we see la Not much more than a year with Emperor Hir:hito and Em-The walls of other buildings are so much of him we know it agu, those who hail at heart the press "Nogako.
in bad repair. Nene has reen almost worthwhile to have lost When the last bowl of rice had paint for years. The roads and the war," real welfare of our community clean it is a breach paths are gutted and unrepaired. wrote after his visit to Kyoto, Shimbun were congratulating themselves on the welcome fact that a new etiquette to leave even a few There are broken yalls and crack-Kobe and Osaka. Once the
sirains), the
the princer and prin- cd window panes,
munist Party sought support, on spirit was pervading the Colony [cesses said good-bye and went liere and there through the in down-with-the-Emperor ... the spirit of that truly de- back, across jyu-bashi bridge vast jungle of weeds and gnarled They soon gave it up. A lead mocratic individual life which for the last time. In future, as forest trees groups of peasant officiat in a miners' union in
anked commoners they will enter the snip at the woods with scissors northern prefecture the war years have taught palace-if they ever do again--by or pluck dead pine needles with Emperor to shake hands. The Em- value so highly. During the war, one of the site entrances. Their their lingers; their effort, have peror merely bowed. The union and for a time after the re-regal days bare ented. Deprince, made little impression yet. Only official lost his job.
the floods that Tokyo, the followed special cupation, men lived together, as purged and now without a living the Imperial stables and
the performance of typhoon Kathleen never before, as brothers, united allowance General Higashikuni. stage for
for one, will go back to his fish nered dances show signs of care. Emperor went out in an imperial by a sense of commun tasks and shop in suburban Tokyo and try There are sleek thor:ughbreds in Household launch.
Men women life savings dangers.shared. Each to forget the days of pomp and the clean stables, and the gravel and children whose man willingly turned his hand to splendor he once knew. From a of the outdoor stage is raked to had been
washed away In the whatever job y waiting to be grant of 47 million yen 40 of nine velvet..
that swirled through their waters houses wopt on inere fortune cousine will push
on the deist and the feeling of free, un-
Imperial Quarters
rooftops the launch swept by. Only one deeper int: the new and strange
Separated from the rest of the old man who apparently would sritists and disinterested coopera- life an embryo dem:cracy ha" tion between all classes and kinds front the Emperor? How haquarters the Imperial Family now the Emperor's turned away.
grounds by a pallisade are the have preferred a reacus launch to to the inn. What of
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Important American
tream. largely the personnel of the Mili-left him surrounded only by his person. He rises each day a
after tary Government to thank, and most immediate relations? while they were with us, the civilian followed their lead.
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities”.
case, after the heart K lend was won by the A and South laid down the ginde A and 3 to the K, West decided that a return of the heart would be highly dangerous. It would set up the dummy's the famous Sidney S. Lenz, known the declarer happened to have
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At the other table, when the declarer laid down the spade A ond led the 8, East followed suit with the 4 frat and then the 2. This was a perfect Lenz echo. The high-low told his partner that he held a third trump higher than the others, and that he had soma the signal. giving West could not very well misread that. It indicated his desire-to-
heart, So West, upon win- ruff ning the second trump, scored the
led the heart and
4. East mado sure trumped that and Neither side thereby that the later diamond trick would be the fourth for his East-side.
SIDNEY LENZ 74 TODAY One of the grandest men in the six and takes” a brief walk Nothing Personal history of bridge is celebrating through the palace grounds. At B There is nothing personal in his 4th birthday today. He is
.m. he has breakfast and by nine the Emperor's appeal. is at his fee. At noon he has small man even by Japanese to veterans of the game as the held just a doubleton in the suit, is not handsome. greatest player of the cards that this would enable him to get s To find these answers I submit lunch. At 4 p.m. pe returns to his standards. Ho To many of us, the hope that this free and democratie spirit ter a searching questionnaire toiving quarters and takes an-Ho is just slightly comic, slight ever sat down to a bridge table. club or diamond discard on the would endure, was a source of in- the Imperial Household. From the other walk.
by tragic little figure in ill-fitting. Ho is still terrific when the spirit card. So West switched
mover him
him to have social scasion clothes, moVRI from ob- replies and, in part,
Dinner at the Palace Is at 6 badly mended Western spiration. The war had
friends, and been servation it is prealble for
the with the
with his frie p.m. and like all other meal, it is eyes are hidden behind fought and won, not for the right first time since the war to com is frugal. Some vegetables, in-thick lenses of his spectacles. Hafine health at his beautiful.apart-Q. The diamond turned to the to go back to the old life, with all plete a picture of the man who
cluding potatoes, pampkins, and makes no great
"Rescripts Cent
Central park. Some of the many, and West cashed his heart A narrowness, snobbery and switched so swiftly from diety wheat are grown in the palace
democracy. jperty colonial prejudices, but, as
Statistically, he
grounds, but staple foods, like are often incomprehensible bridge are sa usefal today as That was all they got, as all of is the 134th Fice and fich, are obtained from many of his people. He is not we hoped, for a chance to rebuild Emperor of Japan. He is the eldest the Tek
Tokyo Metropolitan
Ford great national figure. He did not when he first conceived them. One the dummy's remaining red cards with songthing better, something son of Emperor Taisho and was Bureau,
sway the people of Japan like a of these is the three-trump echo. were now good. more worth while and admirable.rn on April 29, 1901.
All of these, according to the Mussolini or a Hitler in the war, known to many leading players as in our way of life. We were he came of age at 18-he was Imperial Houscheld, are strictly nor did he ever even trouble to the Lens ceho."
SJ 7 5 called Nishinomiya. He
wasrationed by current Japanese law, wear national Japanese costume. eager to make Hong Kong, now educated first at the Pears' Selioo! After dinner the Emperor reads (Is Majesty always Wears the farthest outpost of the Em-where he attended primary and for a couple of hours before go. European-style sulta whether in pire, a symbol of the new Bri- middle school.
Imperial Palace, He was ing to bed at 10 p.ro. He is a keen or out of the tain, the "shop
university reader. but like many Japanese said the answer to my question-
Emperor dies not HK 10 'genuine democracy.
Britain--and who speak and read a number of naire. Alas, how far has this hope Europe, and in 1921 he became langungus, he has been handicap-wear Japanese clattes. As is the
ense with the the case ped since the beginning of
general public recedeil during twelve brief Regent when his father's illness wa
of English clothing is difficult to obtain. But months. Looking around, one
from fulfilling the Prevented
and American
erlenn books. In the reply
In the reply His Majesty manages to get along alex of Emperor. sees all the old cliques, reviving,
to my questionnaire, the Imperial in life by repairing his old He married in 1026, Nagako, usehold said:
D 10 7 2 The Emperor if anything more rigid and in the first daughter of the late strongly desires to obtain booky The
tions he asks, the re-
C A Q flexible than ever. Places are he-Prince Kunihiko Kunin:miya and on binigy and others."
marks he makes on his country (Dealer: South. ing allotted to the favoured while inter the same year ascended the Except when he is on one of touts do not reveal any great vulnerable). the "undesirables" are systemati- throne, The era automatically hin now frequent tours, the Em-depth in any especial problem. South West North
from Taisho *41
He invariably "congles" people cally squeezed out. They have was changed
peror spends Saturday afternoon. He Showa,
his biological laboratory, where 10
lo misfortune,
congratulates 28 about them something of the air
There are now seven members he and his assistant, Kotaro Hat others in success, cautions school- 43
If the declarer has the A-Q-10-
for the last stand, for Prince Akihito (aged 16), and portant discoveries. The interest the new Jupan, as in the old, the one pair of defenders to beat that opposite the J-8.in his own hand. they are indeed an anachronism another-son-Y
-Yoshinomiya.-18,-and in biology is a continuation of his Emperor has little-nged-for-pl
-phy-contract in a duplicate game, and and roads his right-hand oppon- three daughters who count for
The Emperor's tallure to use it caused another ent as holding the K, what is his p.m.days, it is to be hoped, are num-tened in the Imperial eclup.
in the modern world and their very tle and are rarely meu. fchoolboy study of seashells. Ro- Bical attraction.
centiv He went a collection
or father was insane for the last six pair the pain of seeing South best chance to shut that honour classified shells to
to the
years of his life. But that in no make his contract. In the latter out of taking a trick? bered. The wider view, the long-
States for verification,
way affected his position in the er vision, the broader mind... The New Shogun
what he terms his most important land. Indeed, it was a tribute to From the Dai Ichi building that discovery, Lyrecteis Imperatoris the age and purity of the Im- noat and flies the Komui. (Sidelight on this is the perial Family. "My family, too, fronts the
shell bys very old," said a proud Japan- Stars and Stripes, General Mae- actual naming of the Arthur, the new shogun, look" another person. The Emperor ose with whom I discussed this. across at a sea of permanent could not risk an error by nam. "Many of my family too are in- creen behind the grey, stone wall ing it himself.) of the palace. In the blistering a refreshing oase; in the midsummer heat the grounds Fem }\BT I
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position of Lord Keeper of the always democratie
when he is Privy Seal (chief advisor to the working in the laboratory. "An Throne) gave him dally access to serve the Emperor in a narrow the Emperor immediately before rou, my body sometimes touches
and during the war has painted the Emperor the Emperor him in his diary as a weak, vac steps cn my foot," ho said: “If
there
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Labour Defeat Stirs Swaffer
ago. any, distance between the cliating little man never quite
certain whether the war was. Emperor and I, the study shall good or bad thing. Kido
there exists
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Labour's defeat in the municipal elections led un- expectedly today to the revelation of testimony from the Labour Party's leading publicist be fore the Royal Press Commission two weeks
Hannon Swaffer, dean of cause, he said, the system of enterprise brought not be promoted, although of stands in the dock at the Inter-Britain's Labour Press, dia private course in the case of an audience national Military Tribunal for the closed in the Daily Herald that them their position.
Reading from his testimony! and subject." the
the provincial press In Swalter said "It has been my alas the Emperor committed that Before the war the Emperor on his advica,
daily and weekly newspapore experience during a journalistic TOA ณ keen golfer, but the Duke There are others who would sponsored, a "violently anti- carcer covering half a century, of Windsor is about the only man like to see Emperor Hirohito take Labour" campaign which he that reform movements gen- (From the filer of the "Chine who would answer to his scora. his place beside Kide. contacts, and the strain of keep-afail")
It is no said In today's columb partly crally have always had to face He had 18 holes with the secret that Sir ing up their so-called position By the Sri Singapura," wa (peror at a links outside Tokyo who presides at the
tribunal, explained last Saturday's elec- newspaper misrepresentation
Webb leaves lines on the soul as well have intelligence from this quor when the Duke was
-United Press, ter to the 7th instant, Sir James Prince of Wales. "It is still one Australian Government that Hiro- as on the face. Shorn of money Brocke and most of the European His Majesty's pleasant
na earlier reported officially to the tions.
Ruling and position they would cut drab inhabitants left on the morning collections that he saw the excel-criminal. But most of the hang- surprising in that the Press rohito should be tried as a war .Swaffer's disclosures were and uninteresting figures, for the of the 18th. with seven boats, for lont play of the professionals at the-Emperor advocates are un Commission' ruled months ago quality of their minds would Linga, with the intention of eroe the Addington links in England," aware of the terms on which the that all oral evidence would be
a Shanghal. Nov. 3. often fall short of that of many ting a new fort en the Sakarran the Imperial Household spokes- terminated. The myth of submitted privately but written, Formosans in Shanghai-fold
man said.
unconditional. of the contemporaries they affect to hold the pirates in check.
aurrender should had Seriff Houaran
presented
documenta would be madofthe United Fress, todayTM that Under
Constitution the now to despise.
have been exploded long On
Ag
they planned to go to Nanking ammunition the
stores re- which makes the Emperor a con- August 12, 1946, the
public. To the great of heart, snobbery quired for furnishing this fort, stitutional monarch Hirohito is advised
Emperor the Allies that Japan
Swaffer, quoting from his tomorrow or Thursday, to seek
and enlist the aid of American:: is as abhorrent as it is unnecessary and it was probable he would be lightly leas occupied than bo-
own testimony to the Commis-Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart would accept surrender on left in
in charge. The whole
"There has grown in getting China to permis” the and cruel: The worst snobs are nected to be completed ; ex-fore.". Ha has tigo now to pause condition that the sovereignty of | sion, eaid: usually those who are secretly a three
in about to speek jo groups of men and the Emperor be retained..
up in press ownership a new Taiwanese to determine their wooks. little uncertain of their
own, fatare. over Japan why
And on that one condition Gen- kind of feudaliam." uwn Sir James Brooke had recovered come to Tokyo to restore the aparat MacArthur landed at Atsugi Ho added: "A feudalism in The Formosans,” said they position. The man who is inwardly somewhat from his recent sovers pearance of the Imperial Palace in September. 1045. Legal experts which comparatively few men also would ask "Dr. Stuart's confident of himself, his back attacks of sickness, and will prob- gardens and grounds, For poi-say that he wore to abdlento possessed virtual monopoly by help in getting Formosan sent ground, 'whether exalted ably abon visit Singapore, before sants from remote villages it is in favour of Crown Prince Akl-means
Ur humble and the job he is doing.
proceeding to Labuan,
of which they could to. the Japanese peace confer D pilgrimage and holiday com- hilo he could then he brought to criticise or condemn any form once so that they can petition has no use for snobbery. He is
bined and a word from the Em-trial. But today, with the Occupa of government of which as in delegates for a Formosan content to take his fellow men Public Auction:- Mr. Duddell em sacred grounds of the palace we even is emote they did not applebiscite to determine whether as they are, on merit, and to like han received instructions to sell by is more than payment.
should have rule Hiro prove." or dislike them according to their at 11 o'clock a.m. at the House
And cotainly posibility... hito is doing everything he can He said he told the Commis-or Chinese sovereignty.
They said they were already. appeal to him as human beings, formerly known as the "Hong There is more time, too, for do to give a lead an a.constitusion "they would be more than rather than for reasons of policy, kong Shop aftuste in the Queen's Journey Into the remote prefeetional menarch His sisek, if old, altrulat-they would be fools preparing a petition to the advancement, or social accept Bond: A quantity of New Goods ture. Since Hirohibes de deifica Rolls Royce that seems so if they did not do so bo- peace conference or the United
Nations ability. Their lives are, by con- Cloths Twords, Blankets, Flannel, the Japanese people have seen doren rusting en bon be to announced public appearances are sans feared Formica would
furt landed-comprising Woollens, tion on New Year's Day. 1946, strangely out of place among
in the frequent »
sometimes un<[ The Informants said-formio, sequence, far, richer and more Wellen und Ostton Socks and more of their rulers than they full of interest. If we could stockings,
Gloves
Caps, Flint saw of his father and grand-placed by,
aalentations all good, constitutional signs. But live our lives to be great" in duns; alsa few artiles of Win- father in the full span of their car frein als Ualled, States, His as the shine grows brighter on more and more drawn into the what we are, rather than to be ter Clothing of very suporter combined reigns, en dage
renewed inter his many will, civil war with the dedadmici: "big" in what we have that make, consisting of Dress, and Before hashed and grocent est le porter Metely con patched blue suit my hat altuation in China sharply ros
Frock Coats, Jackets, Trowsers, crowds
Imperial pair drive is interested in swimming, how might happen in Japan if he flected in the island already) of human Happiness would bene Vests, Shirts, &c, &c. Terms of across Nyu-bashi to the Tokyo riding, thanks and others, and he gave the undemocratic word, and the danger of starvation fit exceedingly.
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