JAPAN-CHINA: Protectorate by Force

To the world Press last week went a photograph of a small, solemn baby just four months old. It was the first official portrait of His Celestial Highness Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan (see cut). That this sober infant may inherit an empire as great as it is venerable, Japan's ministers last week risked once more the world's wrath.

Tokyo's Eiji Amau is a Japanese of distinction. He has very curly hair parted in the middle and he is that useful anonymity referred to in cable dispatches as "a Foreign Office spokesman." Last week Spokesman Amau assembled most of...

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