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...steaming city of Addis Ababa last week prepared to welcome home its conquering Lion of Judah, Emperor Haile Selassie, King of Kings, who was ousted from his throne by the Italians five years ago last week. Houses were decorated with the national colors (green, yellow & red) and native artists were busy painting pictures of the Negus as St. George slaying an Italian dragon with help from the British Army. Togaed Ethiopians massed in the main square and cheered as a radio announcer read out the names of the first 250 Italians to be sent to internment camps, while some...
...windswept palace on a hilltop outside Addis Ababa the Emperor received a New York Herald Tribune correspondent, bulky Hiram Blauvelt, and delivered himself of an interview. The Negus said he was grateful to the British for getting him back his throne; that he was grateful to the U.S. for the help sent in his country's time of distress; that he was glad Ethiopia was joining Britain and the U.S. as one of the world's free countries; that he was still a member of the American Museum of Natural History...
...Cabinet accepted the pact; the Privy Council, sitting in the presence of the Son of Heaven, approved it unanimously. Next evening Emperor Hirohito sanctioned it. The press hinted broadly that Mr. Matsuoka should next go to the U.S., and perhaps to Great Britain, to try to win Greater East Asia by negotiation...
Since the Emperor Napoleon III pacified Cambodia in 1863, inhabitants of that teeming, steaming puppet State in southern French Indo-China have flourished and multiplied under but three kings. Sisowath I, the second of these, died ripely at the age of 87, survived by 800 widows. Stout, chatty Sisowath II, who followed him, made the good-humored best of a job in which the emoluments were determined largely by the necessities of Finance Ministers in Paris...
...Neill has woven all the suspense possible. His main implement is the drum which begins to throb at the end of the first act and continues throughout, beating faster and faster as the natives come closer to their prey. To the drum he adds the visions of the fleeing Emperor, and in the murky forest appear the ghost figures of the men that Brutus Jones has killed. At each of these Jones fires a shot out of the precious six that he has until at last he shoots the sixth--a silver bullet he had saved for himself...