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When great men go into eclipse they usually become writers or schemers, or both. During the 21 years of his exile at Doom, The Netherlands, Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, has written millions of words in articles, memoirs (unfinished) and private correspondence. And he has never given up hope for a Hohenzollern restoration in Germany. As late as January 1930 he was quoted as saying: "The people will call back their Kaiser." Although Wilhelm II has had to be careful to obey the no-politics order...
During Japan's first invasion of Manchuria, the Japanese killed someone they thought was General Ma. They were so sure of themselves that they sent home to Emperor Hirohito what they believed to be General Ma's uniform and medals...
Last week these lines were announced as His Imperial Highness Emperor Hirohito's contribution (not eligible for a prize) to the annual Imperial Poetry Contest. Far more frankly propagandistic than Emperor Hirohito's efforts of past years, which always discreetly hid the Japanese Army under lotus leaves, branches of mimosa and the burgeoning cherry, this year's poem was released in an inopportune week -a week singularly illustrative of the famous lines on the same subject by that other imperialist, Rudyard Kipling. Only way the twain were meeting last week was on the opposite sides of angry...
When something is told to the Emperor, it automatically becomes irrevocable fact; it has happened. Unfortunately General Ma was still very much alive. Recently, the Japanese discovered this, and last week a confused force of little men surged out across the snow-swept, desolate plains of Ordos with orders to accomplish what every one of them knew - as a most Im perial fact - to have been accomplished long ago: kill Giant Horse...
...work of Martin Luther, an almost complete collection of books tracing the history of lyrics and hymnology in Germany during the 16th century, thirty first-editions of Goethe, and the complete thirty-three volume works of Frederick the Great which were produced for and belonged to the Emperor Frederick...