Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan under Emperor Hirohito has much in common with England under Queen Victoria. Last week every Japanese read with pride a state-of-the-nation speech delivered to the 73rd session of the Imperial Parliament by Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. It might have been Lord Palmerston speaking, it might have been years ago, but it was actually Mr. Hirota voicing the aspirations of Japan in terms as serene as those used by Queen Victoria's ministers to express their gratification at the progress of Imperialism...
Hirohito, myopic Emperor, last week convened with awful solemnity the first Imperial Council held in Japan since 1914. The Conference met, not for the purpose of deciding anything or advising His Imperial Majesty, merely to have the Son of Heaven give his august sanction to new policies previously agreed upon. For let the Emperor, descendant of the Sun Goddess and himself godly in Japanese eyes, speak in Imperial Conference, and impious is any Japanese, high or low, who dissents...
Charles Boyer, as the Emperor, is excellent. Actually, however, it is the sensitive acting of Greta Garbo which enhances the value of Mr. Boyer's portrayal. As the Countess Marie Walweska, with whom Napoleon falls deeply in love, she is a perfect foil for her leading...
...know that the Emperor is hard and uncompromising not so much because of his thundering orations as because of the fact that Marie is so tender and generous in comparison. We know that he was ambitious, determined, and belligerent, not so much because he marches to and fro with his jaw protruding and his brow wrinkled in a perpetual scowl, as because Marie is by comparison so very peace-loving and kind. Mr. Boyer is the star because it is the character of Napoleon which is the center of interest; but it is the acting of Miss Garbo which makes...
...would owe the U. S. $5,220 for the three men killed in the sinking of the Panay, but the U. S. settled for an apology, promise of indemnity and guarantee against future attack (see p. 7). No Japanese newspaper printed the text of the apology, and the divine Emperor Hirohito-who did not feel that politeness required him to reply to President Roosevelt's personal protest-opened the Imperial Diet with a Speech from the Throne which omitted mention of the Panay. "We feel greatly gratified to see relations between Japan and her treaty powers growing in friendship...