Cartier-Bresson, in presumably exposing us for what we are, seems to be showing not that the emperor has no clothes but that he has ugly clothes, mottled skin and a strange hair-do.
Above all, however, it was General MacArthur's decision not to have the emperor indicted for war crimes, nor even allowed to abdicate, that did more than anything to heal the Japanese psyche.
" He writes: "Many Japanese, after all, had been complicit with him in waging war, and the nation as a whole came to feel that because the Emperor had not been held responsible, neither should they.
The future emperor did not record what he thought when he first met Mrs Vining, but it is reasonable to speculate that, for different reasons, he did feel pretty solemn.
Using an example from the Bible, he said: "Faced with what looks like a simple challenge about whether you pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not, he famously shrugs it off, saying, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar and give God what belongs to God.
AD, never lingers over local colour, but keeps a firm, if not wholly accurate, grip on the conflict at the heart of the drama between General Maximus, who is Caesar's chosen successor, and the emperor's son Commodus, who will not let parricide or incest stand in the way of cementing a dynasty.
At the risk of overdoing an already-cited metaphor, the DOJ emperor surely does not want to be further humiliated in his birthday suit.
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In absolving Hirohito, MacArthur not only gave the Japanese people back their emperor, but allowed them collectively to absolve themselves of all responsibility in the process.
It is impossible not to feel haunted by the ghosts of the emperor, princesses, valets and concubines that once roamed the hallowed courtyards.
Like the emperor's clothes, his government did not really exist, and almost no one fought to defend it.
Lately Mr. Obama has been going around saying that the problem is that he's a President, not an "emperor" or "dictator, " but on carbon regulation this is a distinction without much difference.
Neither do they necessarily care that, if Obama is defeated, they might end up very visibly and incontrovertibly on the wrong side of history, with an emperor who turned out not to have any clothes.
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Not a single one of the diplomats present had the courage to stand up and shout: The emperor has no clothes!
Gee essentially said if the Emperor says he has no clothes (or NCAA violations) then the President dare not say otherwise even if the coach is nakedly violating NCAA rules.
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Mr Roberts convincingly shows that this was to boost his marshall's morale and that the emperor had a shrewd idea that the duke was indeed his chief rival, and not just in war.
But later, when George V visited India in person to be crowned emperor, he made the mistake of riding on a mere horse, which was not at all how an oriental potentate was expected to travel.
For the next eleven Ceasars, there was not instance where a father was able to make his son an emperor.
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