'A widower, Admiral Okada lives! simply even for a navy man. When newspaper reporters stormed his residence following his summoning t9 the Palace, they were astonished t0 find him "ina drawing-room the chair coverings of which were torn, and the walls of which were com mencing to fade and peel oft The simple admiral greeted the reporters with a smile, "I don't know whether the call from the Palace means anything, but if you boy think its so important, come up and it around," he nonchalantly tora them ight now I'm having my lunch, 60 Jdon't bother me." Then, to a request to pose for a photograph, "Well, hate to have my lunch disturbed' but you insist on snapping me, all-Fight But don't ask me to smile in this scorching weather!™ 'That night, following his consent to form a cabinet, hundreds of huge Fed fish and boxes of beer, symbols of congratulations and happiness in Japan, commenced to fow into his! home.' He had most of these shipped back as fast as they came. Only' those from closely personal." friends were accepted. Admiral Okada was placing himself under obligation "to!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.