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...this eve of an event of import for centuries, we turn our thoughts to His Majesty, the King and Emperor, who al ways has understood the thought of the country...
Third Great Battle. Against Weygand who in the desperate hour walked with spring in his step, Germany sneered in an official statement that it was a commentary on French democracy that for a savior it had to turn to "the illegitimate issue of a Habsburg, namely, of that Emperor of Mexico, Maximilian, who met such an adventurous...
...Adolf Hitler's mind went back 300 years minus eight, to the Treaty of Westphalia signed in the old Hanseatic town of Münster. By that treaty the Holy Roman Empire, devastated by the Thirty Years War, was broken into tiny pieces and the authority of the Emperor ended forever. The history of Germany since then has been the repeated efforts, under Prussia, to pick up the pieces of that Empire. Last week Adolf Hitler let it be known that the peace treaty ending World War II would be signed in Münster...
...Japanese spring drive was being routed, claimed 50,000 Japanese had been killed. Special Ambassador General Nobuyuki Abe, who long since arrived to recognize the Wang regime in the name of the Son of Heaven, continued to hang around doing nothing. More significantly, in Tokyo no audience with the Emperor was scheduled for a delegation of Chinese who arrived representing Mr. Wang...
Died. Marcus Garvey, 53, Jamaica-born Negro leader ("Emperor Marcus 1") of the defunct "Back to Africa" movement, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, purple-gowned head of the Sublime Order of the Nile and the Knights of Uganda ; in London. He organized the Black Star steamship line to transport his people to their homeland, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923, subsequently deported...