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Asia's War Lord is that most repressed, overeducated and modest of monarchs, the Son of Heaven, His Majesty the Tenno or Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Last week to London from Tokyo flashed a stiff diplomatic note replying to that in which Britain last July 15 announced that she has "invoked the escalator clause" of the London Naval Treaty. In plain words this meant that because Adolf Hitler has torn up the Treaty of Versailles and is building Germany a forbidden navy, Stanley Baldwin has torn up the limitations on British naval building in the London Treaty. Unlike Herr...
This will make Emperor Hirohito the world's Sub-Sea Lord. Japanese, as they read this proud news, found last week in Tokyo rotogravure sections an appropriate picture of the coming Sub-Sea Lord's youngest brother Prince Takahito almost totally submerged, swimming his horse across a river in Japan's latest military maneuvers (see cut). Britain, the U. S. and Japan have now all given notice that they are retaining in their navies numbers of old warships which were originally to have been scrapped under the London Treaty...
...Buck House, however, the 28-year-old Premier Duke found the mind of the 42-year-old King-Emperor already made up that his Coronation procession should be the shortest possible and his Coronation ritual the simplest possible. Soon announced was an official route so short that the only way to make the publicly visible part of the Coronation any shorter would be to cut from Buckingham Palace straight across the park to Westminster Abbey. Seat prices along the official route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge...
Pretty Maria is to marry Archduke Otto of Habsburg in case the Dictators decide on that young man's restoration as Austrian Emperor. But the Hitler luncheon last week was too internationally complex to be more than social. The Olympic Games, which had brought so many exalted persons to Berlin, had their own significance (see p. 37), but behind the German scenes last week the Nazis had joined deadly economic war with...
...Emperor Haile Selassie, now dwelling quietly in the English countryside near London but insisting that a most warlike Ethiopian Government is on the rampage in "Western Ethiopia" against the conquering Italians, has created a keen news market for dispatches about this invisible "Government." Last week U. S. newsorgans began to carry stories dated overnight from "Gore, Western Ethiopia." They appeared to have originated by radio from Gore, referred to "the provisional Government here," declared that quantities of ammunition captured from Italians have passed through Gore in recent weeks, and named as the Gore Government's military leader Ras Imru...