Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army leaders has swept over Japan and has just been given still more punch by the Japanese-German agreement to fight Communism (TIME, Dec. 7) and by the even more recent Japanese-Italian accord in which Japan recognized Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia. Last week the Japanese Diet gathered for its 1937 session and called on the carpet before Japan's politicians were Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and War Minister General Count Juichi Terauchi. On the first day of the session last week Foreign Minister Arita had to face critics of his frankly anti-Communist foreign policy...
...hand-in-glove!" Riotously the session adjourned. To the Imperial Palace rushed Premier Koki Hirota, advised bespectacled Emperor Hirohito to suspend Parliament for two days. But War Minister Terauchi's blood was at boiling point. He demanded that the Cabinet advise the Emperor to dissolve the Diet and order fresh elections. He relied on the fact that he and Navy Minister Admiral Osami Nagano are answerable ultimately only to the Emperor. He felt confident that with the Navy Minister's backing he could throw a big enough wrench into the parliamentary machine to halt it now, perhaps wreck...
...Terauchi, went over to confer with the politicians, the "despised civilians." Not because he was opposed to War Minister Terauchi did Navy Minister Nagano refuse to back him. His reason, and he was probably right, was that he thought that he and Terauchi would more easily get the present Diet to vote three billion yen ($850,000,000) for the Army & Navy than perform the same feat with a Diet elected by more or less angry Japanese voters who knew the Army had forced dissolution. In Tokyo, however, it is almost impossible for a Cabinet to exist if either...
Fats are essential in the human diet, but butter is "the luxury fat," and the attitude of each Great Power on the issue of butter was becoming last week vitally significant. Ministerpräsident General-Oberst Hermann Wilhelm Göring has now made the battle cry of Germany's present rearmament Four-Year Plan: "GUNS INSTEAD OF BUTTER!" Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week responded, in one of the ablest speeches he has ever made to the British nation, addressed to a London banquet: "We definitely prefer butter to guns...
With desperate maternal shrewdness Catherine tried, by one opportunistic scheme after another, to stave off the collapse of her royal house. She tried to balance the religious diet by enforcing toleration of the Huguenots, she tried to raise money by appealing to the States-General. When these expedients failed and civil war broke out between the Catholics and the Protestants, she was nothing daunted, crossed each bridge when she came to it, and just in time. She was grimly pleased when the first civil war ended in a stalemate, pleased that she could say, "I told you so." Altogether...