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...Emperor Hirohito of Japan, 44-year-old father of seven (five girls, two boys), was "especially pleased" to hear that his 19-year-old eldest daughter, Princess Shigeko Teru, was expecting a child-which would make Hirohito a grandfather...
...Tushan the Japanese Emperor's hungry Army had to turn around. In the end it had to pick its way laboriously back across the bitter, blackened land...
Since Ethiopia is surrounded by British and British-controlled territories, the changes were mainly gestures to Ethiopia's sovereignty. Henceforth, at the Emperor's courts, the British Minister will take his place in the diplomatic line instead of heading...
...1930s, the Roman Catholic Church sent a host of missionaries swarming into Ethiopia. Their aim: to "reclaim" for the Catholic faith the five million members of Ethiopia's ancient Christian Coptic Church. Since then Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God and Emperor of Ethiopia, has taken a very dim view of missionaries in general, Catholic missionaries in particular...
Last week came news that in a decree signed by his Minister of the Pen, the Emperor has decreed a drastic restriction of missionary activity in Ethiopia. Hence forth missionaries must not attempt to convert good Copts. They may maintain their hospitals and schools, but only if they teach those "principles of Christianity common to all Christian churches...