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First the Nation's guest had to have the Order of Merit (1st class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...
...week when the Son of Heaven actually appeared, Hsieh Kai-shih seemed so flabbergasted by the honor done him that Japanese courtiers had to nudge him at the right moments as he made his speech of thanks for recognition of Manchukuo, then received the dazzling Order of Merit, Grand Cordon, Medallion of the Rising Sun and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom...
...radio the eager, beardless young general heard Mexico's well-drilled Congress unanimously elect him Provisional President to fill out the term expiring Nov. 30, 1934. An hour prior General Calles had thoughtfully sent over to his young favorite the emblem of Presidential power in Mexico: the Grand Cordon of green, white and red ribbon embellished with the Eagle grasping the Snake...
Draping the Grand Cordon across his bosom, Provisional President Rodriquez hurried out to meet friends who were hurrying to tell him the good news. Exactly ten minutes after his election he stood before Congress, proceeded to take the oath : "I swear to observe and to have observed the political Constitution of the United States of Mexico and the laws emanating therefrom. I will loyally and patriotically fulfill the office of Provisional President of the republic, looking only and always to the welfare of the country. If I fail to do so, may the nation hold me responsible...
...matter of routine the "Old Fox" was decorated posthumously by Emperor Hirohito with the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun and Paulownia. His frail corpse, enclosed in the austere white pine coffin dictated by Japanese custom, lay in the hall of his official residence where he was shot down, while 500 officials, including representatives of all parties, paid their formal respects, pronounced fulsome eulogies. That evening the body was cremated. Next day part of the ashes were sent to Okayama, the rest interred at Tokyo...