Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King by the Grace of God and the Will of the People" is what astute, courageous, popular Vittorio Emanuele III was long before Il Duce added the title of "Emperor." Last week His Majesty surprised casual foreign observers-not Italians-by making Adolf Hitler's visit to Italy the occasion for visibly demonstrating that Benito Mussolini is not the whole cheese in Italy-although he is of course The Big Cheese, as Neville Chamberlain is in England...
Court circles saw in this denial fresh evidence of the close, brotherly relations of His Majesty and the Duke of Windsor who, annoyed by world-wide press mentions of "Duchess Wallis' 20-carat tub at La Croe" had, perhaps, picked up the telephone, got the King-Emperor to correct the tub story...
...China's provisional capital, but the arsenal across the river at Hanyang. Although the arsenal was undamaged, a crowded circular area facing the Yangtze was destroyed at the cost of hundreds of lives. To Japan's aerial warriors the raid was in celebration of sacred Emperor Hirohito's 37th birthday...
...active as a malted-milk mixer, Welles is for all that very heavyset, his adolescent moon face slowly beginning to resemble a Roman Emperor's. Told he looks Roman, he asks interestedly: "Do you mean sensual?" His own description of himself: "I look like the dog-faced boy." Troubled by his asthma, untroubled by his flat feet, Welles gets a little exercise walking and fencing, most by directing and rehearsing. He starts off a Falstaffian meal with a dozen oysters, tops it off with a big black 75?cigar...
...Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet meanwhile had the French Chargé d'Affaires in Rome sign a treaty re-establishing interrupted Italo-French credit relations, then cast about for the right Frenchman to send as Ambassador to the King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia. This would mean recognition by France of the Empire carved out by Il Duce...