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Pope Pius XI is not held more sanctified by Roman Catholics than is the Emperor Hirohito by pious Japanese. His Holiness claims to be no more than the divinely delegated and elected viceregent of Christ. His Majesty claims to be divinely begotten descendant of Japan's Sun Goddess, and is therefore sanctified in his own right...
Most of the new States begotten by the War were born in Autumn. Wilhelm II abdicated as Kaiser and King in November 1918. The sixth birthday of the Fascist Régime in Italy has just been celebrated (TIME,, Nov. 5). Czechoslovakia was ten years old last week, and the Turkish Republic was five. Today there are eleven red candles on the cake of Soviet Russia. Therefore last week birthdays loomed as potent news...
...dollars was put in trust in memory of his scientist-son, Charles Francis Brush Jr., who died last year. Its income is "to finance efforts contributing toward the betterment of the human stock and toward the regulation of the increase of population, to the end that children shall be begotten only under conditions which make possible a heritage of mental and physical health, and a favorable environment...
Last week the celebration of French Mothers' Day climaxed at Paris when the City Council bestowed 80 medals upon ladies from whom ten or more offspring have been begotten. French Royalists pointed pridefully to three titled medal winners: the Countesses Caruyer de Beauvais, Fremy-Elphege and Le Lasseur...
Since Emperor Hirohito has thus far begotten only princesses (two), the heir presumptive is now Prince Chichibu, second son of the late Emperor, and his fiancee, Miss Matsudaira, may dream without presumption of Empresshood...