Show quake ake makes i Y prince rince i popular 1 j people of japan applaud 0 orders to feed hungry before rebuilding palace A toky the tarth earthquake quake was pretty rough h 0 to o Ill crown prince regent igind 1 future emperor of japan i hut but it made him if possible even falore popular with the people than fever ever before and he had already been held in more affee affection tion by his bis subjects than any of his predecessors ever were not even excepting the great whose reign saw the beginning and much odthe of the making of modern japan the jl JI alila which to Is one way of f rile scrIbing an earthquake without Us using I 1 ng profanity busted up the crown princes wedding and his pet palace where he had planned to live with ills bride bilde the princess nagako hunt and it caused some of the imperial imperia I 1 counselors to propose that the imperl al family remove to kyoto the ancient capital in south japan nothing doln said sal d 0 of course bourse lie he say it in those words hut but his veto was flat it was straight direct and to the point were going to rebuild tokyo as nl 4 get the big idea said lie beor or approximately that freely translated were planning a bigger more beautiful tokyo and several million people are going to live here not going to run away from tokyo and ami tint ant lii a 1 stopped moving talk so that was that and when the story leaked out and you could hardly expect such a story to stay bottled up very long it t squelched pretty efa effectively the talk of removing the jap 1 afefe anese capital from tokyo to kyoto or anywhere else yell well then said somebody per with the imperial wedding the prince regent and the princess nagako were to lo have been married in november it be right to allow an earthquake to ah ab 0 ah shall we say interfere with the bap happiness lappine pIne ss of i so 0 auspicious tin nn oc occasion caslon 11 this jl JI shin has jimmied the happiness of 0 an awful lot of people e ob served the regent and to me it seem fair that my happiness should be sought when so many are sad or that the state should spend so much money mon y on a wedding when all the money we pan can raise balse Is needed tor for re 11 ilaf and reconstruction there will be r p no wedding tills full fall I 1 so again that was that oh very well came back the counselors at least surely at the very least leas leastle twe we may be allowed to order immediate commencement of the work of rebuilding the palace food cornea comes first no said hirohito we wont immediately ined lately com commence the work of rebuilding the palace As a matter of fact we wont commence om mence it any time soon indeed as aa I 1 think it over I 1 have a hunch that it la Is going to be a 6 long long time before we rebuild that hat palace because first were going to D teed feed the people and build temporary homes tor for them and then rebuild the city permanently and after that Is done if there la Is any spare change left you might drop around flome afternoon and let me have the be lowest quotations on pal aces Toye to repeat peat the words are a liberally americanized version of the rough ough r and ready version of the story that the people of japan are applauding but the spirit the idea behind the actual official al orders Is faithfully presented earthquake sufferers sufferer 6 first then I 1 can get married end and talk about a new palace was the word of the regent yes the earthquake has done a good many impossible things and among its impossibilities was to make crown prince regent more popular than he was before among his people |