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Last week Haile Selassie, who began to think he might soon again be Negus (Emperor of Ethiopia) in fact as well as name, set up field headquarters at Burie, 150 miles from Addis Ababa. Next day he issued a proclamation to his native troops which was a bald-faced misrepresentation even if issued for laudable ends...
Japan's grave-faced Emperor Hirohito last week wrapped himself in a silken robe embroidered with the sacred Paulownia blossom and stepped into the innermost sanctuary of the Imperial Palace to worship his mythological ancestress, the Sun Goddess, celebrating the ascension to the throne 2,601 years ago of his lineal ancestor, the great Emperor Jimmu. Aside from the fact, of no great importance, that there is no historical evidence that Jimmu ever existed, there was a striking difference between the two ceremonies 2.601 years apart: whereas Jimmu had given thanks to the Sun Goddess after his conquest...
Beside the Battle of 1941, that of Actium (31 B.C.) in which Antony tried to stave off the one-man dictatorship of Octavian (later Emperor Augustus), seems a pathetic farce. Shakespeare tells how Cleopatra finally withdrew her 60 galleys from the action and fled in her sumptuous royal barge, whereupon She once being loof'd, the noble ruin of her magic, Antony, claps on liis sea-wing, and (like a doting mallard) leaving the fight in heighth, flies after...
...kind of gas. The dictators will be dead in two weeks." Another: "I have invented a new way to kill people. You just think about it in your mind if you want to kill anyone. It can kill 6,000. I want to use it on the Japanese Emperor...
...year since the outbreak of the China conflict and yet there is no sign of a solution of the incident ... it is entirely my own responsibility. Billions of yen have been spent and 100,000 officers and men sacrificed on the continent . . . for which I must apologize to the Emperor and the people at large." Last week, Premier Konoye knew full well that if the U. S. in any way helps to keep Japan from a complete victory, he will have a great deal more to apologize...