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...years ago, Emperor Hirohito, speaking to his people in the hour of defeat and surrender, composed a poem...
Nonsense, barked Rivera, "It's Cortes." "I have been a victim of history," explained Rivera, whose lowbrowed Cortés fits current Mexican Nationalist versions of the Spanish adventurer. "All the pictures of Cortés that historians have shown us up to now are really copies of Emperor Charles the Fifth. When Cortés was alive, he never allowed a picture of himself to be made."*Rivera said he based his new Cortés on scientific examination of the Spaniard's cranium and leg bones, discovered in 1947 in a floor crypt of the Mexico...
Vadis is a triumph of money over matter, a monument to Hollywood's faith in the formula that nothing succeeds like excess. Petronius speaks for Quo Vadis when, discussing the emperor's monstrous arson, he tells Nero: "History need not say that the burning of Rome was good, but it must say that it was colossal...
Next, the treaties go to the upper House of Councilors, which is sure to ratify them. Then they will be "attested" by Emperor Hirohito. The peace treaty has also to be ratified by the U.S. Senate, and by at least seven of the principal nations which fought Japan...
...Louis shoe factory welcomed a new mail-order customer: Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, who sent along an outline of his feet and ordered a pair of brown "cowboy-type strollers with a silver-toned buckle" and a pair of black winged-tip dress shoes (size 7^ C) which he had seen advertised in a U.S. magazine...