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TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE FIVE Hirohito Is No Bargain But He's Japs' I No. 1 Boy By DEWITT MacKENZIE Associated Press News Analyst One of the intriguing personalities of this new era of ours is Japan's Emperor Hirohito--a once mystic e who was blased out of his olympian seclusion by the atomic The little Mikado, having divested himself of his supposed divinity on advice of the United States Military Command, descended to earth where he assumed a figure of clay-- and a badly-moulded one at that. Still, this transformation has seem- ed to make little or no difference in his god-like status with his worshipful people. Now that's an astonishing circum- stance, and so when Russell Brines, AP chief of bureau in Tokyo, drop- in on us in New York for a brief visit, I seized the opportunity to quiz him about Hirohito. Brines knows his Japan--as would be ex- pected of one who has lived long in the Orient and even was held as a prisoner for nearly two years during the war. : The 47-year-old Misa Bp posed by his people to be a direc descendant of the sun goddess, He is the 12th in a line of rulers who have held the throne for 2,600 years. No wonder his humble subjects formerly regarded such a back- ground with an awe that precluded their venturing to look directly on his countenance. When he came down fo earth and started circulating, however, the il- lusion of greatness was dispelled, so far as concerned crude westerners. One would have expected a similar effect among the Japanese them- selves, for the Mikado is far from inspiring. Hirohito is short, stooped and pudgy. He is near-sighted and thrusts his head forward like a turtle. He walks with a jerk. In short, he is about as unprepossess- ing an individual as one would imagine, You'd think that he would lose prestige with his people, as he circulates among them for the first time and they get a chance to see what he really looks like. But not so. The Emperor still is powerful, His subjects continue to regard him with reverence and even with affection, Indeed, his hold on the people remains so strong that when the Communist party organ- ized a propaganda attack on him, the plan had to be abandoned be- cause of public resentment. The little man, despite his short- comings, remains a powerful and beloved figure. And that's a mighty important fact to keep in mind as the allies try to guide Japan onto the long, long road which in the distant future may lead them to democracy. Finds Germans Not Converted To Democracy By KEITH GARNER Berlin.--(Reuters)--Three out of every four Germans in the British zone have failed to be converted to democracy and have little or no faith in the host of democratic parties which have sprung up since the end of the war, according to a spokesman of the British control commission political division. The average working German man and woman cares about nothing but the food, clothing and coal situation, the spokesman added. When an election comes along, he votes for this or that party, but only because he was taught under Nazi regime that it was his duty to vote, and not because he has real interest in party politics. "Generally speaking, we can say that our attempts to instil demo- cracy into the people of Western Germany have been mainly a fail- ure," he continued. "Nowhere is there the same am- ount of interest that one encounters in Britain, and nowhere is there any real understanding among the 'common people of what the various * .. parties stand for." The spokesman felt that the fail- ure of the Germans to take up democracy in a big way was due to three main factors: 1. The moral and spiritual col- lapse in 1945 which left the people half-stunned, disillusioned and ill. inclined to take part in any 'new experiment." The collapse left them with a ruined country, one of the most acute food crises known to present- day Europe, and an overwhelming feeling that they had become the "untouchables" of the western world. Between searching for food, cloth- ing and fuel, they had neither the time nor the inclination to take any interest in a "democratic awak- ening." 2. The ingrained German "fueh- rer instinct," that is to say, the desire to be led and to leave the government of the country to "the men who know." This instinct, already discernible | in the Middle Ages, became domi- | nant in the days of Bismark, and reached its 'peak under Hitler, Goebbels and the Gestapo. "A nation which has done what its has been told for generations can hardly be expected to adopt democratic feelings overnight," the spokesman declared. "The German tendency to obey the government of the day remains and is perhaps responsible for the fact that the Germans have been so quiet and docile during the past three years." 3. Probaby the most important of all, the shortage- of leaders of de- mocratic thought who are really abreast of events and tendencies abroad, "In 12 years of Nazism, the young men who would normally have emerged as democratic leaders either rotted in concentration camps or became prominent in the Nazi movement," the spokesman said. "Those who were in concentra- THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW By Al Fagaly and Harry Shorten What to Do p_ STALL ON ONE OF eal) HIS CLIENTS, HE TERMS Tw «DIPLOMACY! 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Skilled Bushmen Guide Scientists By LESLIE BR! 1 { Canadian lL ent Sydney, Australia -- (CP) -- The | United States-Australian scientific | expedition now in Arnhem Land, | North Australia, to probe the mys- | teries of the Australian aborigines |in their natural surroundings, are | to be guided by experienced "bush- | men" of the Northern Territory. A number of these men have been enlisted by the Native Affairs De- partment to act as guides for the expedition. They know as much of the land as any white man, and are respected--and in some cases feared --by the natives. ' The expedition is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, the (U.S. National Geographic Society and the Aus- tralian government. Charles P. Mountford of the Adelaide Museum is leading the expedition. Mountford has established a tran- sit camp eight miles from Darwin, | and the first base will be set up on | Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of | Carpentaria. Journeys from this | base will be guided by Fred Grey | a former trepang fisherman who | has lived many years in the area and knows the native dialects well. | In 1934 he helped stop a minor Into Arnhem Land tion camps returned three years |war between the natives and white ago out of touch with the modern men when he persuaded the natori- world and its way of life, while |ous Caledan Bay tribesmen to meet those who became Nazis obviously would have no place in a democra- tic revival. "As a result, the men who took over the leadership of Germany in 1045 were the old-time politicians who were in. their prime in the time of the Weimar Republic, and are still mental.y living in the days following the First World War. SWEDISH HYDRO PLANT Stockholm -- (CP) -- A hydro- | electric plant capable of generating 200,000 kilowatts is to be erected on the Ume River at the most norther- ly tip of Sweden. Authorities ex- pect the plant will have been com- pleted and dammed back a giant reservoir of water by 1955. the white men for a peace confer- ence. He guided the police party that went out to search for the tribesmen after they had murdered | a Constable McColl of the Northern | Territory Mounted Police. McColl | was investigating the massacre of a {number of Japanese trepang and |pearl fishermen 'when he was | murdered. Grey used the traditional message stick and smoke signals of the natives to contact the wanted men. The Groote Eylandt natives have the finest physique of all the Arn- hem Land natives. They are a treacherous and ferocious tribe and will go on the warpath at the slight- est provocation. Grey's knowledge of the habits will be of great assistance to the scientists. When the expedition moves fur- ther inland, Gordon Sweeney of the LVIHY SERVICE OF THE PUBLIC THE AIRLINE HOSTESS Those who travel the air-lanes know well "her charming efficiency, her ready skill. 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Deputy-leader Dr. Frank Setzler, Tuesday chief curator of the department of | 7:00 Be anthropology at the U.S. National 0 Poa Museum, hopes to establish the |7:30 pm.-CHa Board of Directors' "time sequence" of the natives. He | meeting, Club Lounge. told a reporter that the scientists | Wednesday expected to find that the tools the 7:30 p.m.--Softball meeting. 4 Arnhem Land natives use today are | ee a Done 221 the same type as their forefathers | pee-wee invited. used 1,000 years ago. 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