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PETER

RUSSO

MEETS A

PRINCE

OF NEW

JAPAN

PRICES

CALEBANESE

UP, UP, UP.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE. 9, 1956,

DON IDDON'S DIARY

World Wappright hu arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

MIKASA SHOCKS THE DIEHARDS

F

QOL cowanl. and former associations with the merely fiddled with a glass of

dusable-crosser are Imperial universities of Japan, sherry

and

I had poured he is

some of the kindlier with Tatsunosuke Leda, of ing

my 25 years friendship accurately accused of not drink-

terms

wile

myself at and

our

or smoking And belug being used the Imperial Academy, I invited astoundingly devoted to his wife by nostalgic Japanese the Pince to take pot luck with and numerous children militarists to describe is my

Rather rustly, 1 fear, I began Imperial Highness Prince hotel.

alnost

draw immediately lo Mikusa, the youngest A light deviation is meessäty

the Prince out on aspectes of his brother of the Emperor, here In recall the Eind of book, which had not yet been

wilch once commented las vid protocol

the in twobtained Before the war there Japanese or foreign language

was boul as much chance of Press the getting

Imperial Japanese Parlik war, the Prite would urine- Into

pal dining- have been patriotically disposed Toom as there was of taking Tites Dalai Laut on a round ot Shanghie's nightclubs,

They hirl al that. short years ago, before Japan's Unnecessary

of for the Imperial goodi.

This ferocirus bulborst, CX-

prosed bi patiphlets and letters

LI

a

the Japanese Prers, follows Rearguard

the publication of Prince

Mikasa's book. "Emperors

Graves, and People." The book action

in a scholarly research

into ancient Oriental history.

upon

moral code and discipline should be

in

studied more precise his- torical terms and

not solely as an exercise in polt- tical propaganda.

was his

But the most enlightening part of this dinner with and talk Prince Mikasa (we went on for The cables had already picked

nearly

three up his book's more vigorous re- nections on how he was com derscoring of pelled to

the Joh

Imperial th possible Army, on the deep suspicions dangor Agno in his attitude engendered among Japan's the militarist hierarchy, on itis toward demo demunciation of Japan's "Holy cracy. Ho ex- War" do "an orgy of pillage, presses his own result, orson, and rape "

Immense at the unpr What I was particularly dently

sonni freedom order of procedence he himself sure of per- gave to his "recollections" and that came with

but it is not the main subject Household, together with their Interested in, however, was the

matter which is wracking So mary of Japan's dwnters of the old Imperial Way.

Significant document

His Highness also saw it to ütl h chapter enuitted Recollections,

My

The ancients of the Imperial neministrative wardens, are still fighting a solid rearguard action

they against what

call "democraíle deterioration" the Imperial rites.

the

of

roller

I'd Rather Have A Scotch, Thanks

B

Hamilton, Bermuda who handed them over for five EFORE I started on dollars as if they were da rare

my round-the-world as rubles.

which trip.

mund-the-world

that meant. Now more than 40,000 miles of trip is nearly over Ind I have 80 Miltown pills left, Through- flying, I went to my doctor out the loug, And strenuous in New York.

new

Journey's I took only three Miltowns--ons. Fijl one in

to

of

I said: "You know I dislike Calcutta, and one in 'London. flying, but this jub has got to

Boventeen 1 Live AWBY be done can you give mo something to calm me down litery friends and travellers. wild make me tranquil?”**** What is my report on this

The doctor, who also dis- tranquillising pill which likes Dying said: "Yon being gobbled up by the hun- might try the

stuff dreds of thousands by nervous Miltown! Lots of Broadway Americans seeking peace and Hollywood octora aweur by it and it seems just the A restrained one, a tranquil thing for people who are 'in ene. I am not imong the big tense and demanding pro- boosters of Milten or the other mood pills which aromaking the United "I'll give you

a prescription the druggists in

States rich. for 100, but I don't pro- mise' you'll get all those. There The

fessions.

mind,"

·

pill tastes bitter, acts

is a terrifle demand for Mil slowly and the ection itself is town, far greater than the mild and almost eligible. supply."

However, I got my 100 Mil- townn from chemist friend,

M

Dinner at Dr Russo's Tokyo hotel:

(L. to. Potor Russo, his friend Pr

Uado, Princa Mikasa, Mrs Russo.

帝王臺日

• The book that has shaken Jagon-. and People." The Prince wrote: "The Princo Mikasa's "Emperors, Graves, war was an orgy of pillago, assault,

arson, and rapo,

The impact he fell they we the end of the war, and he uses, accident for Prince Miknen. He having on the readers who were this comparison to assess trends riders are doing the next bait making his book Japan's most in Japan.

thing. controversial best-seller.

The Prince answered

questions Tiny with complete frankness, even those I predicated as being off

the record.

They look with horror on the wicked modern necesily which now mables even er forsign diplomats to share members of the Imperial family on a pro rata basis. merely to get a Personal bit of exalted colour for their foolish diplomatic pariles.

and it is this long and soul-searching epilogue which has infuriated the tradi- tionalists and made the book one of the most significant political and social documents hand, locs of modern Japan,

1

Prince Mikasa, on the other not co-operate in this necessary diplomitic evil, and seems to have gone com- pletely round the democratic

1 read the book, found enthralling, and decided to take bend. the Prince up at the challenge it contained.

Trading on my

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freedom

There

Is no doubt of the extent to which Milcasa was moved by the selfless, sacrificing Christian missionaries hemat In the remola interior of China He has not only become a during his holy war simple lecturer

that Women's University, but has

In spite of and privation, made ho

out of

Faith wavered

IN future, as in the past few

weeks, when my faith $ Miltówri wayded I will settle for an aspirin and a whisky-

and-soda.

Most doctor say that this new tranquillising pill is harm- Juss. It is not habit-forming aS the barbiturates are, it does not glve a leaden hang-over.

feeling

or make you drowsy. and no and yet has been known to die from ап overdose of Miltown. And its rivals Equall Thorazine Spatine, Reserpine. Butibel, Frenquel and Protal. My advice is that you are better without Miltown 'er „ány of the antiterision phis. But y advice is bbviously not “being taken by rnuliitudes of Ameri- oans, Miltown is now the fourth largest selling prescription drug in the United States.

Doctors George Boines, of Wilmington, and Steven Horoschak, of Philadelphia, who tested a group of 30 jittery teeth clenching, foot-tapping near-neurotics, report remark ablo gestalts. In every Instance the patients showed great in- provement."

town

of

The pill is named after the Milltown in Now Jersey, where a manufactured. It is sorrittinen known as **don't* give a damn because it is supposed to bestow confidence and self-reliance on the taker. It is a white tablet; about the sing of the old "three- penny bit. It can be taken with water, orange juice, Scotch, gin, rum, brandy or anything Thanky

'Great boon'

DR Herman Salk the brother

of Dr Jones Salk, who de veloped the polio vaccine, has used one of the tranquillis, Sporine, on neurotic animals dangerous dogs and ferocious monkeys and reports that he calmed them down with a couple of pills.

Other doctors have helped unfortunates suffering delirium tremens,”

de

from

For the muitally agitated the Dills aro described /t

great boon, but for the ordinary. The nicest people, cleverly man anxi woman who suffers ocensional tension and coached without their knowing from

repeat the fiction that anxiety, for the man like my- is really self who regards without relish Prince Mikasa eccentric, whose head has both spending 20 hours or mos in arpoplins or appearing turned by too much exotic study an

flimfitm and before ́a bradcasting, micro- of democratie

television camerŲ, phone or rate the pill a dud.

Possibly its effect is to make one a little reckless, put onę in

Prince Mikasa believes (and nobody could know better) that

extent of Japantee It, will the

"democratiation" will be le flected in the kind of home life that his nephew, the Crown Prince, will be allowed to live in the pear future.

If Prince Akihito, heir to the throne, is gradually hedged in and made 10 conform with the ancient rites, Japania popular democracy will also suffer

Ancients

al Tokyo This was the type of

miUFIOUS

said that he decided against ship

toilect

renouncing his Imperial status political capital

In order to promote democracy persecution it suffered, and by identifying at Icost his share judgment of the sinners to of the clan with the mass of Higher Being.

the people..

Women's lecturer

22 was to solve the

the

deaf

that

Christian superstition,

"

My own impression--and I went into this meeting with a mostly critical approach is that purely one of a genuino--and Mikasi's eccentricity has been amazing breakaway from the most rigidly Importai roullie Rince the days of the Pharaohs,

Foreigners here, especially the diplomais orc observing a

a don't give a damn mood.

The

stuff didn't ́ ́slow ma down, but I belleve made me talic fasater, and I. am inclined to talk quickly on most occa- Aons.

A British doctor whom I've raiber cimbarramed allenco in known for years said to mo: "I reintion to Prince Millenso, and [think they am too now to be The proof of Milkman's de- this first blunt documentation of proved. **· duation was found in the

*Imperiolism vicious reaction to his book by

apaneso

from inside. One gets the im- the old-ume militariais. They prasion that we, too, feel this understood that, until the

Imperial Princo has let down Emperial Household spain, be the good old tide of blue blood theso deilloated

came a closed shop, Mikar begin his stucky of the little posiblity or stifling the and ordained privilege. origins of Christianity in andent

demozalle, nonsense that was Oriental history. "What was It that inspired

threatening the zevival of 'Goodness,” them to sublime gels of sumanity Japan's divine mission.

Angliver London doctor said: "The pill has a different effect on different people. It calms out and make to stopirin or

others Taco, Stck, Dramamino it you have to take something on long fights."

"Take care

To this to my invitation, Mikasa naked himself, and he

degree, Prince my wife In mply

In the Mikama. Prince Mikasa said he would be sought the nuiswer

becomes not only a at the hotel

main entrance at Testaments and the prophets dancinis radical" in the eyes 7.30, and he was there on the cry for social justice.

of her traditionallates, but The young mon” (41) certainly MILTOWN and the others defi Auro chloromazine

roserpino“ drug, raying point for all who se in has let it down in terms of vatives

protocol. At shout and you will have to get you worthwhile imperiol. domestle

Japanese 10,30 of this memorable even, doctor to explain that for yolt.

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thôio trup, Christiarid came fer- moto the cots are the ing) Prizico Miletsa "ganoc?it. | Thdy, poketak: the control: neryour

dot. Ho came alone, and we The riddle was the more proceeded to the dining-room, where no special armingements complex that the allegedly Christian countries "from" whitch, of any kind had been made.

peuplo:

fias Prince his watch and almet leapt autent and relax the mumbled Judging from the ultra deep vently ashleed one another Mills book has received from his chair on taga which may”, de) TÂY –not::156) bow of the bend wall and the in the name of the game overwhelming BLLDDOT

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