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...however, represents only the capitalization of the South Manchuria Railway Company; Japan's total investment in Manchuria, including the additional enterprises specified in the sentence quoted, amounts to nearly two billion yen. On the third page, Prince Yamagata is stated to have participated in a conference called by Emperor Taisho after the signing of the Nine-Power Treaty a,t the Washington Conference. The Nine-Power Treaty was signed Feb. 6, 1922. Prince Yamagata, however, had been seriously ill since the preceding October and had died on Feb. i, 1922. Moreover, at this period Emperor Taisho had been...
...last hours as Kaiser, indecisive Wilhelm II asked General Groener whether he and other German officers would keep the oath they had sworn to their Emperor. Replied General Groener who today is Germany's Minister of Interior and Defense, "What is an oath, Your Majesty? It is only an idea...
...Great Britain, France and Germany should withdraw from Belgium and fight in their own territories. He re-reminded the President of "the quaint absurdity of a war waged formally between the German Kaiser, the German Tsar, the German King of the Belgians, the German King of England, the German Emperor of Austria." Shaw could see the absurdity of the War, could not see the absurdity of fighting witless circumstance with wit. For all his labors nothing but scandal ensued. Right down to the Treaty of Versailles, when Shaw pleaded for clemency towards Germany his utterances "had about as much effect...
...illustrators who would help to make of each book a genuine work of art; and it is here that Burgkmair is most distinguished. His wealth of imagination shows itself nowhere more convincingly than in the long and brilliantly achieved series of illustrations for the chivalric romances of the Emperor Maximilian, "Theuerdank" and "Der Weisskunig...
Direct beneficiaries of the assassinations ,are cackling, rheumy-eyed Premier Ki Inukai of Japan (called "The Old Fox") and a group of Japanese militarists whose powers last week approached dictatorship. Against them weakly stood the aged Prince Saionji, 92, adviser to the Emperor, Count Makino, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and possibly the Emperor himself. Two months ago a bomb, thrown under the carriage of Dr. Ichiki, Minister of the Imperial Household, exploded within 50 ft. of the "Son of Heaven" (TIME...