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Ethiopians remained the rage in Tokyo last week but Japanese began to scan their credentials. The yellow Emperor's subjects continued to lavish official hospitality on the chocolate Emperor's envoy Daba Birrou (TIME, Sept. 30), but after elaborately banqueting a certain Mr. Thomas they found out that he fits only the fourth part of his description of himself: "I am an Ethiopian, a graduate of Cambridge University, a millionaire and desirous of taking a Japanese bride...
That Japan's blood brotherhoods still flourish disturbingly appeared last week when the notorious Black Dragon Society announced Tokyo festivities in honor of a representative recently dispatched to Japan by Ethiopia's hard pressed Emperor. This representative, potent Daba Birrou, accompanied the Duke of Gloucester on H. R. H.'s sporting tour in Ethiopia (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). He ranks among the Emperor's closest friends, though he reached Japan entitled merely "Secretary to the Honorary Japanese Consul for Ethiopia in Osaka, Mr. Chuzaburo Yukawa...
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