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...Free State of Prussia back under direct rule by the German Government seemed the bold design last week of Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, bristling Chancellor of the Fatherland's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles" (TIME, June 13). In the old days when Wilhelm II was both German Emperor and King of Prussia the two cabinets were of course interlocked. Therefore the Fatherland seethed with monarchist rumors as Chancellor von Papen put the screws on Prussia. This he did by abruptly forbidding a payment of 100,000,000 marks ($23,700,000) from the German Treasury to the Prussian Treasury...
Satsuma Empress, In the new Cabinet Baron Yamamoto, the Home Minister, is a Satsuma. In Japan it is an axiom that "The Home Ministry makes the election." Why did the Son of Heaven consent to a Satsuma in this key post? Court gossip had it last week that Emperor HirohitO' and his ancient adviser Prince Saionji, 83, had both been swayed by another adviser who is the Son of Heaven's close friend, Count Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal-a Satsuma...
...that matter so is Her Majesty the Empress a Satsuma. Last week Japanese, always inclined to read the present from the past, discussed the new Cabinet and the current Japanese crisis in terms of the 31-year-old Emperor's career, recalled that he has always been in his quiet way a precedent smasher and that the first major precedent he smashed was to marry for love outside the strict circle of Japan's Five Eligible Families...
Good Sport-Japan's Imperial House has no name. On April 29, 1901 the present Emperor was born and named Hirohito while his grandfather the great Emperor Meiji was yet alive. Because his father was strong neither in body nor in mind (though he begot four lusty sons), Prince Hirohito was thrust into every form of sport, even wrestling. Justly and modestly he has observed: "I am not really good at any sport. In swimming, however, I rather think I can hold...
...mold his mind into stern channels the young Prince received as his first tutor General Nogi, famed for his bloody capture of Port Arthur. When Emperor Meiji died, Tutor Nogi impressed his pupil by reviving the custom of junshi (''following in death"). He and Mrs. Nogi committed harakiri. Two years later the Crown Prince received a: tutor the resolute Admiral Togo who had destroyed the entire Russian fleet at the Battle of the Sea of Japan and who remains alive to this day, telling the tale...