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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been threatening denunciation as only he can threaten. Last week in Tokyo the Supreme Military Council and the Board of Marshals and Admirals convened. They decided in august assembly to hold in abeyance Japan's decision on denunciation until Nov. 18 when the Son of Heaven, His Majesty Emperor Hirohito, returns from Grand Military Maneuvers. That gave the Tokyo corps and their Governments a fateful deadline...
...lawyer named Maurice Joly and entitled A Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. In this work, for publishing which its author was jailed for 18 months, the famed French essayist acts as literary stooge to the Italian courtier, whose unscrupulous policies are, by implication, ascribed to the Bonaparte Emperor...
...Buckingham Palace carrying enormous scrolls. Their obstreperous State had decided by referendum to secede from the Australian Commonwealth and seek self-governing status under the Crown (TIME. April 17, 1933). The scrolls, crammed with the signatures of Western Australians who demand this change, will be referred by the King-Emperor to his Lords and Commons when they reconvene this week...
Three months ago the Son-of-Heaven, cloistered Emperor Hirohito, proclaimed a National Oil Business Law so bold and drastic that at first it was scarcely taken seriously outside Japan. Provisions: 1) foreign oil companies doing business in Japan must build additional storage tanks and keep always on hand a six-months' supply of petroleum in addition to their normal needs; 2) they are subject to quota restrictions on retail sales which thus far have been rigged to favor Japanese oil companies at the foreigners' expense; 3) the Government reserves the right "in case of emergency" to purchase...
...foreign oil firms are being squeezed, if possible, even harder. The Japanese Government owns half the stock of the South Manchuria Railway, which in turn owns 40% of something called the Manchuria Oil Co., 80% of whose stock is in Japanese hands. To this firm His Majesty the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo has been graciously pleased to grant a monopoly of petroleum sales within his realm. President of the Oil Monopoly is Mr. Keizaburo Hashimoto, brother-in-law of famed General Takashi ("Happy Sparrow") Hishikari, the Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo and Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Manchukuo...