Word: emperor
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...Italian atrocities in Ethiopia," last week was directly attacked by the Dean of Winchester, to the alarm of the British Foreign Office which took pains to intimate that monkeying with Mussolini is risky work for the United Kingdom's State Church. At London, in the presence of Emperor Haile Selassie, a solemn Anglican service for native Ethio pian war dead climaxed when the Dean of Winchester said the Italian people ''have been seized by a spirit of evil of a superhuman nature. . . . The ruler of Italy supposes himself to be a Caesar, but he is the true...
...Emanuele III canceled at Rome last week the Italian delegation headed by Crown Prince Umberto which was to have represented His Majesty at the British Coronation. Reason: Vittorio Emanuele III and his subjects, including Il Duce, are united in considering His Majesty not only King of Italy but also Emperor of Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure of a snub in Rome for British Ambassador...
Just three and a half decades ago His Majesty the German Emperor, Wilhelm 11, bestowed upon the President and Fellows of Harvard College a matchless collection of casts of German sculpture. It was this Imperial gift that assured the Germanic Association, founded only the previous year, the success of its aspiration to create in America a monument to German culture. A few years later Adolphus Busch donated the money to build, and Professor Bestelmeyer of Munich designed, the present Germanic Museum...
Arms for Venus (by Randolph Carter; Mary Hone, producer), elaborated from a tale by Petronius, deals with certain aspects of human frailty in the Rome of Emperor Nero's time. This provides Author Carter, who wrote the play while studying for a graduate degree at Harvard, with an opportunity to mix Roman and Christian mythology in such oaths as "I'll be Jove-damned...
...greatest Japanese steamship line-who walked off the steamer Katori Maru at Yokohama, saying they had "gone on strike as a patriotic protest because the N.Y.K. last Oct. 29 failed to order all its ships in all parts of the world to hoist the Rising Sun flag while the Emperor was reviewing the Grand Fleet." This inconveniences Emperor Hirohito who intends that the Heian Maru, off which the strikers also walked, shall carry his brother Prince Chichibu to represent Japan at the Coronation in London. To be sure the strikers know this well enough, were only slyly holding...