Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Japanese reactions to the German-Russian Pact were complete bewilderment. Cabinet Ministers began the routine of hurried calls-on each other, on the Premier, on privy councilors, on the Emperor -which invariably accompany important Japanese decisions and invariably give rise to rumors that the Cabinet will fall. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, who had many a time publicly plumed himself on having accomplished the Anti-Comintern Pact, was busy word-swallowing; Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, who came to power last January because he had Fascist leanings, looked as if he would topple over when his leaning posts were suddenly withdrawn...
...Cabinet met again this week, searched its soul, announced another decision: it would resign in a body. Man chosen by Emperor Hirohito to be successor to Premier Hiranuma was no fire-eater, no ambitious young officer, no strong man-but conservative Nobuyuki Abe. An old hobbyhorse of a retired general, he has had no spectacular fighting and political experience, but plenty of experience in behind-the-scenes talking. He was briefly Acting War Minister in 1928, was one of the seven generals who retired after the 1936 uprising of the Army's jingoists. His probable policy: a strong line...
...those were the headquarters and that was the funeral of one of the richest men in the world, a man who by floating loans could keep whole countries from sinking, whose death and its subsequences may cause a political crisis in France. This financial emperor was a fat-lipped, mean, noxious, cigar-smoking German Jew, one of whose mistresses had a gold bathtub and who, after 20 years in The Netherlands, could not speak enough Dutch to boss his own chauffeur. His name was Dr. Fritz Mannheimer...
...range of his sesquipedalian verbal achievements spread from masterly Johnsonian periods on the occasion of "Remarks of Senator Ashurst on the Steamship President Grant on Saturday, October 26, 1935. Presenting to Vice President Garner a Pair of Sox to be Worn When He Has an Audience with the Emperor of Japan," to sombre views on mankind's future, viz.: "It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...
...summering in central Italy at Rocca delle Caminate, still keeping the vow of silence he publicly took at Cuneo, in northern Italy, last May. Edda herself was at the island of Capri, across from the Bay of Naples, supervising the building of a villa at her (and the late Emperor Tiberius') favorite recreation spot...