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...Emperor Hirohito was anxious to do everything in accordance with Japan's new democracy-or at least in compromise with it. Instead of arranging his second daughter's marriage through a go-between in the time-honored way, he sent his frock-coated vice chief chamberlain directly to the bridegroom-elect. "Their Majesties, the Emperor and Empress," hissed the imperial emissary, bowing low, "would like to have their daughter married to Honorable Takatsukasa. What are his feelings on the subject?" "I accept," said 26-year-old Toshimichi Takatsukasa, a $20-a-month clerk in the Traffic Museum, bowing...
...chudo-the middle way," explained a palace confidant, "neither love match nor arranged marriage." Pretty, 20-year-old Princess Kazuko had begun preparing for marriage two years ago by learning to cook, sew and sweep floors in the home of one of the Emperor's former chamberlains (see cut). The imperial family soon afterward settled on bespectacled Takatsukasa, cousin of the Empress Dowager, as a likely husband, provided both youngsters were willing...
Married. Carl Ludwig von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, 31, fourth son of Emperor Karl I, last ruler (1916-18) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; and Princess Yolande de Ligne, 26, daughter of Prince Eugene de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to India; in an elaborate ceremony performed by the Primate of Belgium, at the De Ligne family castle, Beloeil, Belgium...
Item: Malcolm Macdonald, Britain's able commissioner general for South-East Asia, reported that he was hopeful of Communist defeat in French Indo-China. Nehru disagreed. He considered Emperor Bao Dai a French puppet...
...Formosa. ¶Economic aid and civil defense arms for the new United States of Indonesia (see FOREIGN NEWS). ¶U.S. aid to the French forces in Indo-China, which State considers the most effective anti-Communist armies now fighting in east Asia, and simultaneous pressure on Paris to help Emperor Bao Dai cut his puppet strings and set up an independent, popular government in Indo-China...