Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt, two-time Man of the Year, could not justly hope to repeat. In the Old World in 1935, for the first time since Versailles, a group of potent statesmen exercised concerted influence over other nations than their own. . . . . . . Prime undisputed rankings were those of Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie as Underdog of the Year, and of Italy's Dictator Benito ("Just-A-Man") Mussolini as Aggressor of the Year. The other leading characters in the puzzling exhibition included the youthful Front for Idealism, Great Britain's Captain Anthony Eden; his more practical Elder Uncle...
Censorship may kill authentic news, but it is fine fertilizer for rumors. Harvesters of that exciting crop last week garnered the following stories from East Africa. ¶ Having already visited Harar, Ethiopian headquarters in the South, Emperor Haile Selassie motored last week to Dessye, main Ethiopian headquarters in the North, over a road especially repaired to make the journey possible. Dessye greeted the Emperor with arches of leaves, transparent banners, and a delegation of policemen imported from Addis Ababa to keep order. Red Cross signs, traditional marks of an Ethiopian brothel, were hastily taken from the numerous houses...
...matter how few the casualties, one person almost certain not to survive the Ethiopian war has been Lij Yasu, "Child of Jesus," the 38-year-old onetime Emperor of Ethiopia. Deposed by Haile Selassie in 1916, Lij Yasu has since 1926 been a closely guarded prisoner in the fortress of Gara Mulata, well fed, comfortably lodged, but handcuffed night & day to the wrist of a guard. Lest Italy should release him, make him a puppet emperor, it was announced weeks ago by the Emperor that "Child of Jesus" had been moved to the shores of southernmost Lake Rudolf...
...review by Lewis H. Titterton of With Napoleon in Russia, the newly-discovered memoirs of Napoleon's aide, General Armand de Caulaincourt* (TIME, Dec. 2). The line was at the end of a quotation from Napoleon which de Caulaincourt had offered as proof of the Emperor's unscrupulousness in winning allies...
Born. To Empress Nagako of Japan and Emperor Hirohito, a son; in Tokyo...