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While Mr. Hull and the President waited for Japan's reply, ominous reports of Japanese troop movements in French Indo-China began to pour in on Washington. At week's end President Roosevelt dispatched a personal message to Emperor Hirohito...
...Fedor von Bock's cosmos, the Fatherland remained constantly deathworthy; the Emperor was interchangeable with, successively, Weimar Republicanism, Hindenburg, the Führer. He was completely unpolitical: he never plotted, was never purged...
...dark as work on inadequate air-raid shelters went on around the clock. Men were at work in one corner of the Palace grounds. No one could see what they were doing, but a good guess was that they were building an air-raid shelter for the Emperor. Laborers studded Japan's other big cities with antiaircraft guns...
Prince Takahito Mikasa, 26-year-old brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, posed with his 18-year-old bride, Yuriko Takagi, for a solemn wedding picture...
According to the official German news agency DNB, Emperor Hirohito anounced that the Japanese were conducting a large-scale offensive on Hong Kong...