Show it SS rauw U W EMPEROR ONCE democratic twenty three y years ears ago this writer visiting in japan got considerable firsthand first hand information about the emperor from a young japanese quaker renzo who had been picked to accompany hirohito then crown prince on a trip to see the western world why educated in a Q quaker ua school in tokyo was chosen to accompany the young prince on this history making trip I 1 do not know except that the imperial council of 0 education wanted a commoner of Hiro hitos age who spoke english and french to travel with the future emperor never before had a ruler of japan left it its shores in the past scarcely was the emperor even seen by his subjects some idea of his isolation can be gained from the tact fact that the word mika means awful the word do means place and the name mikado means awful place in the old days priests came to worship at the awful place I 1 but they never saw the emperor whose other name even today is tenno meaning son of heaven the emperor is synonymous with the sun and from this comes the japanese hag flag with 16 spreading rays symbolic of the rising sun and the emperor in those days the mikado was the theoretical owner of all the land and all the people and their possessions he was their god and protector his lance and shield came from ama the ancestral region thus arose the cult of shintoism which actually means rule of the superiors or way of the gods even the word for government in japan 4 means shrine visiting or religion modernizing the emperor thus during most of japanese history in fact up until just after the arrival of commander perry in 1852 the mikado was an ethereal spiritual being not a ruler and it came as a definite shock to many japanese that their emperor to be should sail off to england and france to absorb western culture in fact some of the more intense patriots actually threw themselves on the railroad tracks in front of the train carrying hirohito to yokohama in protest against the departure naturally hirohito may have changed a lot during the 23 25 years since his trip naturally also my friend saw ada was prejudiced in his favot favor H however the story of that voyage voyage was one of a young man anxious to mingle with his fel fei astound the emperor worshippers wor shippers by wrestling on the deck with his aides get a bloody nose and dance democratically lly ily with the servants of the duke of atholl in the same barbaric scotland which according to shinto priests is made from the mud and left over after creation ot of the heavenly isles japan hirohito even managed to deliver a public speech to the lord mayor of london alq and no emperor in all the history of japan had ever delivered a public speech before in all japanese history furthermore no emperor had purchased an article of any shape size or form in pa paris ris however hirohito insisted on going alone and buying a necktie and later a pearl for his mother hirohito goes underground his greatest ambition however was to ride on the paris subway or metro before leaving tok tokyo YO Hiro hitos staff had been strictly forbidden to let the heir to the throne ride on any subway but bat despite this the crown prince bolted most of his staff and v ventured underground he insisted on buying the tickets himself and handed ahem them to the fat lady guarding the gate but he handed them to her in a bunch instead of spreading them out fan shape so that she could not punch them quickly all of which brought forth a storm of abuse in metro french heaped on the head of the future ruler of japan CAPITAL CHAFF C the 1946 congressional elections probably will see the bitterest fight and the most money spent in years both sides are gearing for or a showdown partly as a result of the british elections conservatives are saying it cant happen here 0 C L truman was kept informed regarding all these incidents that japan was weakening came after russia declared war and the japs did not declare war in return C L congressman john J oconnor victim of of the roosevelt 0 purge and who has never forgotten it is among those back staging the christian front ca campaign against gen william odwyer another instigator is father edward curran odwyer fought the christian front when he was brooklyn prosecutor fl 41 the army is due to cutback on acost everything except hospitals several new ones will be built in buding a 2000 oooo army hospital in puerto rico hico by the L W robert firm of atlanta he was secretary of the democratic national committee |