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...words away, but to his chagrin the head of the U.N.'s Congo force backed up the provincial president. "Colonel Mobutu's army is a disorderly rabble.'' snapped Rajeshwar Dayal, announcing that U.N. troops would henceforth patrol the Leopoldville streets side by side with Kami-tatu's police. Indignantly, Mobutu collected a hundred soldiers and some Jeeps, rushed over to U.N. headquarters to protest. When he emerged, there were tears in his eyes. "The United Nations wants me to get out." he announced stiffly. Mobutu complained bitterly that Dayal was treating him like a child...
Meanwhile further cuts in the Imperial Household budget seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for 37 years, resigned and "moved across the moat...
With Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, with bearded Jimmu Tenno (Emperor of Divine Valor), with the 14,000 kami (gods) of wind and mountain and sea, Lieut. William K. Bunce, U.S.N.R., wrestled for three months. Then the tall, slight, 38-year-old former dean of Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio), for three years a teacher in Japan, produced a directive reshaping the relationship of 77,000,000 Japanese to the Shinto faith. Last week, with not even a penciled change by Allied headquarters, Shinto according to Bunce was promulgated in Tokyo...
This fabled land lies like a sort of buffer state between the empires of Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek-"far beyond the end of the Great Wall, out over the ancient caravan route, six oases to Baboon pass, six oases to Kami, along the rim of the Celestial Mountains, past the Red Salt Lake and the Blue Salt Lake." It is two days by plane to Urumchi and then two weeks by ancient truck across the drifting, trackless desert to Kashgar near the Russian border...
...protect himself from another Moslem attack from Kansu, Sheng Shih-tsai invited the Russians to set up a Red Army garrison at Kami. A full regiment of Russian troops was stationed there-dressed not in Soviet uniform, but in the Chinese uniform. Russia was permitted to establish a trade agency called Sovintorg which monopolized all Sinkiang export trade. The newly built Turksib Railway exercised enormous economic force. Russians helped to lay out roads, planned irrigation projects, trained a provincial army, staffed provincial hospitals...