According to the Allied Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur, the provision was suggested by Prime Minister Kijūrō Shidehara, who " wanted it to prohibit any military establishment for Japan — any military establishment whatsoever.

According to a Los Angeles Times news story from 1956, two swans named Rudie and Susie hatched their five new cygnets on the island in MacArthur Park Lake, and according to the park superintendent, these were the first swans born in the park in over a decade.

According to MacArthur and others, it was Shidehara who originally proposed the inclusion of Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, a provision which limits Japan's state sovereignty in that it forbids Japan from waging war.

According to Gaddis Smith about Manchester's biography of MacArthur, " Ideologues of the Right will find the portrait too disparaging and those of the Left, too flattering.

According to Lieutenant General Sir William MacArthur in an article in the Army Medical Services Magazine ( circa 1950 ), " Tommy Atkins " was chosen as a generic name by the War Office in 1815.

According to the Americans the US Army lost some 21 killed and 23 wounded in the battle, an effective loss of 33 % of their strength ( termed a " profoundly impressive loss " by American General Arthur MacArthur, Jr. in an effort to allay the potential shock on U. S. servicemen ).

According to Stimson, MacArthur felt that Hart's ships and submarines were ineffectual, but because Admiral Hart had lost his courage.

According to the 2007 Newsweek Magazine issue of Top 1, 200 U. S. schools, MacArthur High School is currently ranked as # 518 .< ref >

In 1988 John F MacArthur Jr published the first edition " The Gospel According to Jesus ".

According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

According to Martha, by this time she and Bill fought all the time and she told him to stop drinking or move out so he moved out into a room in their pool house.

According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.

According to Isaac Asimov, Gauss was once interrupted in the middle of a problem and told that his wife was dying.

According to writer / director Peter Bogdanovich, Marlene Dietrich told him during an aircraft flight that she and James Stewart had an affair during shooting and that she became pregnant and had the baby surreptitiously aborted without telling Stewart.

According to Day's autobiography, as told to A. E. Hotchner, the usually athletic and healthy Martin Melcher had an enlarged heart.

According to Arnaz, the CBS network told him, " You cannot show a pregnant woman on television ".

According to the article, Anita Dunn claimed in an e-mail to have checked with colleagues who " deal with TV issues " and had been told that nobody had been instructed to avoid Fox.

According to a story told decades later by George Bancroft, Polk set four clearly defined goals for his administration:

According to the story, after the king asked his daughter Miaoshan to marry the wealthy man, she told him that she would obey his command, so long as the marriage eased three misfortunes.

According to the story, told mainly by the Roman historian Livy and the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( who lived in Rome at the time of the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus ), her rape by the king's son and consequent suicide were the immediate cause of the revolution that overthrew the monarchy and established the Roman Republic.

According to Gilbert Burnet, however, Mary convinced her husband that she did not care for political power, and told him " she would be no more but his wife, and that she would do all that lay in her power to make him King for life ".

According to the Gospel of Luke, Nazareth was the home village of Mary and also the site of the Annunciation ( when Mary was told by the Angel Gabriel that she would have Jesus as her son ).

According to the legend, Meridiana ( or the bronze head ) told Gerbert that if he should ever read a mass in Jerusalem, the Devil would come for him.

According to the journalist Christopher Hitchens, Ekéus " told me that he'd been offered by Tariq Aziz in person, to his face, a bribe of a million and a half dollars to change his inspection report.

According to a 20-page search warrant affidavit signed by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, Grimsley told investigators he obtained amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee.

According to, Samuel had told Saul to wait for seven days after which they would meet ; Samuel giving Saul further instructions.

According to witnesses, a white man is alleged to have told one of the armed black men to surrender his pistol.

According to Sr Marie of St Peter, in her visions Jesus told her that He desired devotion to His Holy Face in reparation for sacrilege and blasphemy.

According to the Buddhist tradition, the Buddha told his followers:

* June 26 – According to legend, the Pied Piper of Hamelin visits the German town of Hamelin and leads 130 children to their deaths, as told in the tales of the Brothers Grimm and many others.

According to Irish legend, as a young girl Ní Mháille wished to go on a trading expedition to Spain with her father, and on being told she could not because her long hair would catch in the ship's ropes, she cut off most of her hair to embarrass her father into taking her, thus earning her the nickname " Gráinne Mhaol " (; from maol bald or having cropped hair ).

According to Greek mythology, the Delphic Oracle told Apollo that the horseradish was worth its weight in gold.

According to his friend Vaughan Williams, Holst once told him two things about art " that ought to be recorded ":

`` According to Rose, he arrived here a couple minutes before nine and spotted Thor in the water, got a hooked pole from the pool-equipment locker and started hauling him out.

According to Arminius, " God regards no one in Christ unless they are engrafted in him by faith.

According to the Tanakh, however, Ahab with 7, 000 troops had previously overthrown Ben-hadad and his thirty-two kings, who had come to lay siege to Samaria, and in the following year obtained a decisive victory over him at Aphek, probably in the plain of Sharon at Antipatris ( 1 Kings 20 ).

According to the accounts given by Pindar and the tragedians, Agamemnon was slain in a bath by his wife alone, a blanket of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.

According to Strabo, he was born in Naryx in Locris, where Ovid calls him Narycius Heroes.

According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

" According to University of Richmond Law Review, " When offering an Alford plea, a defendant asserts his innocence but admits that sufficient evidence exists to convict him of the offense.

According to the book Gender, Crime, and Punishment published by Yale University Press, " Under the Alford doctrine, a defendant does not admit guilt but admits that the state has sufficient evidence to find him or her guilty, should the case go to trial.

According to an account Smith published in 1624, he was going to be put to death until the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, saved him.

According to him, while the first two visions ( the alter-globalism and the anti-globalism ) represent the reconstructed forms of old and new left ideologies, respectively, in the context of current globalization, only the third one has shown the capacity to respond more effectively to the intellectual requirements of today ’ s global complexities.

According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

According to her later memoirs, Fátimih fell in love with ` Abdu ' l-Bahá on seeing him.

According to recent academics, Athanasius, growing impatient, took a small number of bishops who supported his claim, and held a private consecration making him bishop.

According to Athanasius, the devil fought St. Anthony by afflicting him with boredom, laziness, and the phantoms of women, which he overcame by the power of prayer, providing a theme for Christian art.

According to Athanasius, Saint Anthony heard a voice telling him, " Go out and see.

According to the History of the Cyprus Church, in 478 Barnabas appeared in a dream to the Archbishop of Constantia ( Salamis, Cyprus ) Anthemios and revealed to him the place of his sepulchre beneath a carob-tree.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

According to Yevgenii Pasternak, " I couldn ’ t recognize my father when I saw him that evening.

According to Avedon, Chaplin telephoned him at his studio in New York while on a layover before the final leg of his travel to England.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

According to the Bible, " God raised him from the dead ", he ascended to heaven, is " seated at the right hand of the Father " and will ultimately return to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment and final establishment of the Kingdom of God.