The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-28
HE WILMINGTON MORNING STAR. WILMINGTON. N.
SUBJECT OF TALK
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The Domei Agency said the I'm
perial government was weighing
wholesale reorganization" OF the
Bank of Japs.., the financial dyn.
ar that kept the war machine and
it's supporting industries running
Domei also reported that dissolu
ton was imminent for the Patriotic
Labor Service Association - ia
pans only wartime union - t.
make way for those free labo,
unions which the United States il
determined to see arise.
Toyohiko Kagawa, j p a n e
Christian social worker on whom
the Americans may depend heavily
to revive liberalism in the islands
organized the international Peace
Society," with 20 others at the resi-
dence of Premier Prince Higashi'
Kuni.
Gen. Joseph w. Stilwel1 called on
Macarthur and later headquarters
announced the deactivation Of his
u. S. Tenth Army. The Tenth's oc.
cupation of Okinawa and adjacent
islands will be taken over largely
by army regulars. StilWen will re.
turn to Washington for reassign.
ment.
Units of the u. S. Sixth Army
33rd Infantry Division arrived II
force in the area of Kobe, Japan
greatest seaport, extending Ameri-
can occupation to the Inland Sea
for the first time.
Hirohito's call on Macarthur was
as lacking in ceremony as it was
replete with drama.
The Emperor arrived at the
American Embassy in a dark,
somewhat old automobile bearing
the Imperial emblem but not paint
ed in the Imperial maroon. The
back curtain was drawn.
He tipped his silk hat to couple
of helmeted soldiers who stood at
the gate with their rifles and fixed
bayonets.
Hirohito, in formal diplomatic
clothes of the Occident, complete
with the top hat, sat stiffly upright.
On a Jump seat facing him was
Admiral Fujita, the Grand Cham
berlain, who had arranged the
meeting with Macarthur a few
days ago.
An attendant jumped from the
car, opened the door and bowed.
Fujita backed out and bowed As
Hirohito emerged.
Brig. Gen. Bonner Teller, Mac
Arthur's aide. met Hirohito. who
removed his silk hat, bowed. and
shook hands - something else his
ancestors never had done
for a foreign conqueror.
Fellers escorted the Emperor to
the state reception room, where for
the first time Hirohito came face
to face with the man who SYM
bolized the Allied power that
wrecked his empire. Hirohito bow
ed in MacArthur's direction.
In contrast with the Emperor's
Macarthur was dressed
in cotton khaki, his shirt open at
the neck. It was the same in
formal battle dress he wore at the
ceremonies aboard the
Battleship Missouri Sept. 2.
The two men shook hands. Mac
Arthur said, Good morning" An
army photographer who took pic
lures of the historic meeting said
ne thought the Emperor replied to
the greeting in English.
Then Hirohito and Macarthur re-
tired to a lounge before the recep-
ion rooms fireplace, and talked
for IS minutes while all but the
personal Interpreter re-
tired.
The meeting over, the Emperor
returned to his car, and
his five-automobile convoy sped out
through the Embassy grounds,
past a Gordon of American guards,
through the bomb ruins Of Tokyo
and into the clustered Imperial
Palace grounds.
The drive took 10 minutes. jap
anese police along the route SEEM
ed unaware of what was happening.
They did not look ct their EN-
peror.
Some gazed at the five cars I'm
til they saw their Emperor in the
second one, and then quickly turn
ed their backs. as is their custom.
The first and last automobiles
Imperial guards.
The automobiles passed unno-
ticed by japanese civilians. Obvi-
ously they were not then aware
that Hirohito had flouted the time
worn custom of his ancestors and
was returning from humble visit
to a foreigner.