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...Prince Chichibu, brother of the new Emperor of Japan, also on his way home, called at the White House...
Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya of Japan, heir presumptive* of a dynasty over 2,000 years older than that of Edward of Wales, arrived in Manhattan last week from his studies at Oxford, en route to the funeral† of his imperial father in Japan. Although Prince Chichi-bu is the sole member of the Japanese Imperial House ever to visit the U. S., and although his is the oldest reigning dynasty in the world, he went all but unnoticed...
Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira and other prominent Japanese who went to meet the Prince shut their eyes to avoid witnessing the undignified spectacle of a descendant of the Sun Goddess slithering down a steep, icy gangplank. Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright kept his eyes open, greeted Prince Chichibu, and saw that the revenue cutter on which he was taken off the Majestic borrowed a Japanese flag from the liner and ran it up while a salute of 21 guns boomed from the shore...
...Route to Washington Prince Chichibu's special halted at Baltimore and His Imperial Highness stepped upon the platform as another special rolled in bound for Trenton, N. J. Therein a lean-faced gentleman sat reading a handful of clippings about Nicaragua (see p. 8). The lean, thoughtful gentleman went on reading, and the tall prince waited. Then, since loutish railwaymen failed to tell the President of the U. S. that Prince Chichibu waited, the presidential special coasted through Baltimore, gathered speed and vanished, while the President read on, oblivious...
Throughout the week Prince Chichibu, second son of Yoshihito Tenno, was vainly racing to his father's bedside from his studies at Oxford (TIME, Sept. 27). Returning to Japan across the U. S., he landed at Manhattan from the Majestic last week...