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...prestige to represent Japan fittingly at the Washington Conference (1921-22). Since then he has been several times Foreign Minister, served as Acting Premier (TIME, Nov. 24) when his old friend and classmate at the Tokyo Imperial University, Premier Yuko Hamaguchi ("The Lion") was skewered by a would-be assassin's dagger and lingered on to die last month...
Neumann's hero is a political assassin. Hoff, former German officer, since the Revolution a professional dancer in a Berlin cabaret, is leader of an extreme group in an anti-Government party. This group decides to precipitate a counterrevolution by killing the Prime Minister; as leader. Hoff assumes sole responsibility for the job. He has everything figured out; all preparations made. Evening before the attempt, between dances at the cabaret. Hoff has a conversation with a man who looks so much like Hoff he might be his brother. They go home, spend the evening together. The man turns...
...have witnessed the assassination of a U. S. President is something to remember all one's lifetime. To have collared the assassin is a distinction, a thing to tell about, that has come to only three groups of men in the history of the land. One of those men, the man who collared Charles J. Guiteau in Washington's old Sixth Street railroad station a few seconds after he shot President Garfield, last week observed the 50th anniversary of the occasion by granting press interviews...
Thinking quickly, Agent Parke paid no attention to the fallen President but rushed past, seized the assassin by neck and wrist and held him, shouting: "This is the man!" until relieved by policemen. Assassin Guiteau was a disappointed office-seeker whom both Garfield and Elaine had ordered kept off their premises. He had wanted, apparently, a consular appointment...
...only a part of this documentation. . . . For obvious reasons I cannot bring precise charges at such a time as this and on such an occasion, but I am prepared to put this question: Is it true that the day before the shooting of my father by Punica Ratchitch, the assassin was closeted two hours with King Alexander of Jugoslavia...