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...your Year's men-the Chinese Generalissimo and the Emperor of Ethiopia-got the living bejesus beat out of 'em. Maybe the same jinx would catch Hitler. CHARLES B. WILLIAMS Rome...
will also endeavor to make what contribution they can to the urgent need of facilitating emigration from Germany." Meanwhile, almost unnoticed during the week, the Anglo-Italian Treaty of last April was brought into effect and King-Emperor George VI with his own hand signed the credentials of British Ambassador Lord Perth to Italy's now-recognized King-Emperor Vittorio Emanuele...
Last week Japan made an unpleasant reality even more real. In a note to the U. S., which was approved by the whole Cabinet and by sacred Emperor Hirohito. the U. S. charges were answered with a polite, sugary denial: "It is far from the thoughts of the Japanese Government to impair the rights and interests of American citizens in China or discriminate against their enterprises." Tucked away at the end of the note was a paragraph which, translated to plainer, less diplomatic language, was blunt advice to the U. S. to wake up and realize that...
...those between Catholics of different races -which are valid under canon law. The Osservatore revealed that before the Italian decrees were published "the august person of the Holy Father himself intervened directly with two paternal letters, one addressed to the head of the Government, the other to the King-Emperor." Last week Pius XI presumably had no reply from Mussolini. King Vittorio Emanuele, however, wrote him promising "the greatest consideration" for his views...
Five years ago in Majorca Robert Graves, 43-year-old poet, scholar, teacher and soldier, who gained U. S. fame with his account of his War years, Goodbye to All That, wrote his first Roman novel as a scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...