Star Spangled Mikado (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Frank Kelley | knygos.lt

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Excerpt from Star-Spangled Mikado
The New Mikado sat back in his overstuffed chair, lit the famous corncob pipe, stabbed the air with a half-filled matchbox and said:
"Gentlemen, even after fifty years among the Orientals, I still do not understand these people."
The speaker was General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. The place was Tokyo. The time was January, 1946, six months after his invasion of the unknown.
On September 2, 1945, on the broad deck of the Missouri, he had sternly bade the Japanese to write an end to fifteen years of aggression. His voice was firm, but his hands shook - perhaps betraying advancing years. A stumpy-legged Japanese, looking slightly ridiculous and out of place amid all the freshly starched khaki and shining gold braid, stepped up to the table in top hat, cutaway, striped trousers. The Japanese scratched his name on the dotted line. The formalities of surrender were complete.
For MacArthur, it was the end of the road, the long road back from Bataan and Corregidor. For the Japanese, it was defeat, their first in two thousand years of history.
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