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SHOT-GUN WEDDING

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Japan's Sullen Resistance To Occupation

old.

By ERNEST HOBERECHT

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THE occupation of Japan is over three years The Japanese, who fought fiercely throughout the war, did not fire a shot or resist the Allied landing forces in any way. It was the beginning of a strange, now era in Nippon's history.

Too much of the debris has been removed, temporary reconstruction is booming and the country has taken on a new appearance. But what about the average Japanese citizen?

After three years of observation, you begin to get an idea of what Tojo-ism, defcat and the occupation have done to Suzuki-san.

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Suzuki-san is a composite Japanese, not necessarily the average man. There are times when he smiles and there are times when his expression is bitter. There are times when he is servile. Now, more than in the early days of the occupa- tion, there are times when he is wallen and defiant.

OF A

STREETS TELL STORY CHANGING SOCIAL PATTERN

THE

Greenstreet, W.1.; They dance where the duke dined,

And who's say next neighbour

a duchess or

thocker?

of letter-box

my madest Sittle lat in Green-street, Mayfair, W., rattled, A letter, embossed on the flap, fluttered on to the old oak Hoor.

And an outraged page history quivered-and began to turn back for it was addressed to the Dowager Lady Nunburn- holme, daughter of a marquis, wife of a baron, mother of countess. a drop of the bluest blood that ever filtered through an English vein.

A

I found myself wondering if. when No. 7 was a centre of social London, she had the same trouble with the lounge floor as

we have now.

in

•

Cricket hall afley-with adjourn. surmis to study the fashion parade,

The British Government and local coun- cils have taken over more than 61,000 houses -ranging from three-room dwellings in the East End to some of the West End's most historic homes. Soon 120,000 people will be One street tells the story...

living in them.

BY TREVOR EVANS

She

And Hopscotch enrust,, where you can sülh mu? a tout sock;dły wrong.

toe of the first-and slowly up to the end rond.

Three years of experience have enabled him to tell when he can express himself or when he must hold his emotions in check.

CAN'T DECIDE

BY American standards. Suzuki-san is not an elicient worker. Even though he some- times works hard, he doesn't accomplish as much as the Americans expect from them- selves under the same circum- stances.

Usually Suzuki-san has three or four times as many helpers as is necessary for the job. He and his helpers work hardest when they think they are being watched.

It seems almost impossible for Suzuki-san to make decisiony for himself. He would rather be told than be forced to make up his own mind. Any devia- on tion from the routine in his of the work is almost certain to upset

or batlle him.

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When the going gets tough, he What is "Fatal Felix" doing? looks to the Americans for guidance Is he counting his footsteps, and food and clothing. When his lot is easy, he wishes the Americans making minute

calculations as would get out of his country as soon he finds one day that the num-as passible, ber of steps between Park- When Suzuki-san hog to be a Lejul, he street and North Audley-street witness at a war crimes

takes the Japanese line. American and North Audley-street his prosecutors carno! depend upon. mysteriously diminished? Or Japanese witnesses to testify with is he just lonely? And why truthfully against other Japanese. Suzuki-san will chang his story up when the the minute he gets on the stand.

SULLENLY TO DEATH WHEN Suzuki-san is hanged for a war crima he goes ly to Last week, he vanished for his death. However, he might issue the Ameri- some days. But he came back a statement thanking

well while

again be able to claim the re- were going. The war

So he sent doesn't he look curd of my former neighbour. Napoleon was on.

men round spreading the lady from up the road, with the the Duchess of Gordon. netted three dukes and a mar- rumour that the Cossacks had parrot chained to her arm, quis for her four daughters, smashed up Bonaparte and his passes?

armies. It wasn't true, but the

markets went rocketing up.

It may have been the old duke who walked down Green- street the other morning to the wedding at St Mark's, The striped canopy was up.

They sent Lord Cochran off again-hair neatly cut, beard on for treating him

in prison. to gol for a year, fined him gone-in a trim blue suit. Yes- In past years. Suzukl-san Was

resist

MIS

The £1,000 and ordered him to be terday he changed his shoes not a thief. Now he cannot ink- Outside in the street two red carpet was down. The sun sat on apillary, before. the outside the window-and left prying into parked cars and

ing anything he might find. small, cherry-cheeked boys were was shining...

Royal Exchange.

the old-pair in the railings.marais are not what they used-to-

bc. kicking a punctured rubber ball

But the wedding guest was There's nothing of that in

At home Suzuki-san has fasten back and forth. A green saloon

Then and now Topper in hand, white Green-street now. The nearest

his doors as tightly as possible. car with "C.D." on its burapers inte.

and spats flashing. morning tails we got to it was the other night

Before the war he never worries slithered between them

flying, he dodged around the as we sat in the lounge. Sud- WHAT goes on in No. 1, Green about having his home entered or Now he has to pulled up outside No. 10.

removal vans outside No. 5.

street? Lady (Annabel) possessions taken. A denly, there was the quK de Freyne used to live there fight to keep robbers away. Upstairs

one of the workman leaned out

Suzuki-son of the "slip, slap" of a man's running Now a dignified little black-and-the old and the new, the East and between is caught Georgian houses, a window was window, heaving. a settee on feet on the pavement. Then

which thrown protestingly open. ropes up to the second floor-another man, shouting "Stop, white doorplate simply says the West. He must decide

Japanese ways hb wlit Young Charlie was told to be destined for one of the half- thief!"

"Marringe Society." That's all. of the

keep; he must decide which of the careful. He picked up the ball, dozen familles just moving in.

No. 32, where the Princess Western ways he will accept.

He talks about We read all about it in the

how clean put it in his pocket, and shouted

is empty Japanese are, but his kitchen and back: "Well, let me in, then."

papers next day. A wallet hnd Royal used to live,

and war-scarred. So is the backyard are like pig penn, been stolen and not a soul to Earl of Dundonald's home at a great one for a false front. There was a pause while the

No. 37. And Mrs Sassoon's

TWO WORLDS voice went away from the win-

say "Gadzooks, villain!"

We have our interests, of house. Twenty-five guineas aquZUKI-SAN lives in one world: łow. It came back and cried.

Just across the road in week they charge for some of ▷m.mbers of the occupation forces "Catch!" Charlie ran for the

live in another. The two worlds Duke of the flats up that end. key that came dropping down, The wedding guest looked up. No. 61, where the

are side by side but fow trom in a piece of news, shied, and sped on. wrapped

world Sutherland used to live until a

Workmen have been scraping either camp across the line.

Although Suzuki-san realizes paper. He missed it, grabbed it that was tottering ten years few years ago, you can look up off the road and ran indoors-ngo was crashing around his at the front windows and see clean the sides of Lady Conyng-that the new enrs and dine clothes ham's home at No. 62. Now a and plentiful food of the occupa- leaving his nice little friend shouldera-and

of the young the slanting, the bare backs

the ballet great business firm has moved on people have been brought in staring disconsolately up at the heaving settee was the symbol ladies

in. T. 0. M. Sopwith's house window.

has become, a club,

The old duke

Elegant rogues

THE workman stopped. “Give you four an' a 'arf, tosh," he yelled down.

A

course.

who

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the

He is

at Allied expense, he feels a little

The grandeur has gone. Only my window-cleaner

insists on being paid by bankers order for more. my 7, a month.

learn there.

bitter about the whole situation. of it.

Although he rentines that he And our oddities. On the

I would be starving if it weren't for It is true that rogues and

American food and all. he thinks vagabonds used to live down edge of the pavement outside is

the Americans should Rive him the old man we know as "Fatal our street. But they were

Suzuki-san forgets how well oft IT wouldn't have done for the handsome,

Felix." Hat pulled down over elegant rogues,

how the Japa- duke! This changing face turned out to the last pinch of his brow, old coat bunched up And I cannot help feeling surry he is. He forgets

nese army acted in the Philippines, of London

dug for the duke. But there's something in China and in the other has shivered his snuft

places Brocaded hantiker- under his beard, hands

about those aristocratic timbers so badly chief.

deep and mournfully into his warm and reassuring

that they occupied. He forgets that that he has packed up and gone.

pockets, he marches up and perambulators outside No. 6-und the Japanese army took ears, food Lord Cochran, for instance.

and clothing away from the pen- down, hour after hour, day after about the little girl, polsed on one Where? His daughters still They took him from

early in the expectant leg, as the "New Looks" ple they controlled Green-

day..

arrive for the party at No. 0. And war. He forgets that the Ameri- gel married around, the corner street to prison.

polishing the Repr the dowager cann are giving him things, in- at St Mark's, North Audley-

One foot forward, then the stopped on is Back in 1814, he wasn't satis-

gulte an absorbing stend of taking things away from

him-United Press. strect--though he will never fied with the way his shares. heel of the other brought to the pastime.

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