Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese everlastingly complain that the hairy foreigners* seduce their diplomats by subtle arguments and barrages of press propaganda which beat daily upon the sensitive Japanese who are striving to do their best for Emperor and Fatherland...
Bubbling with elation, Dr. Hans Lammers, Secretary of State to the Realmleader, announced that Adolf Hitler now considers himself German Chief Executive for life (i.e. German emperor in all but name). Addressing the Berlin Civil Service Academy, Dr. Lammers advised them that "Cabinet ministers are now responsible only to the Leader and no longer to the Reichstag. The new fealty oath eliminates the possibility of a minister voting against the Leader...
From the palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian high above the harbor floated a great black banner and other streamers of crepe hung from nearly every window in the town when the Dubrovnik came in with its sad freight. For a few hours King Alexander lay in state, before being carried to a special train and sent on a slow roundabout journey through the provinces of his enemies to his capital. At every important town the train made a brief pause, longest of all in Zagreb, capital of "rebellious Croatia." If any still hated Alexander they dared not show...
...coffin for the body of the murdered King. There was not time for an entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon lie. From their catalog, Julius Maschner & Son chose the same model coffin...
...soon as the frontiers are opened to me, I shall return without bitterness. I have suffered under the injustice done to our house, but neither my father, the late Emperor, my mother nor myself has blamed the Austrian people. ... I salute you all in the hope of returning soon...