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...Germany, although it was signed last year, and that Italy's signature last week is "equivalent to signature of the original pact." Ambassadors Hotta and von Ribbentrop, having signed this ludicrous concession to a Dictator's vanity, were each rewarded by Vittorio Emanuele III, King and Emperor, with the Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice & Lazarus...
...domestic difficulties of his son were the least of cadaverous-faced Haile Selassie's troubles last week. In an effort to replenish his diminishing funds, the Negus was juggling several lawsuits in the air at once. Pleading that his client, the Emperor of Ethiopia was in a "distressing position," a Paris attorney attempted to convince the French High Court that Haile Selassie was the legal owner of 8,650 shares of Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad stock worth some $1,500,000. Backing away from a decision that Premier Mussolini would consider hostile, the court decided it was incompetent...
...London, a Chancery Justice heard the Negus' counsel stoutly assert: "I hope to satisfy your Lordship that the plaintiff is still the Emperor of Ethiopia. . . . He is so recognized by the British Government." But the court postponed decision on the case in which British Cable & Wireless Ltd. denies it owes the Emperor $50,000 for the maintenance in Ethiopia of a radio station for duplex radiotelegraphic service between Britain, Ethiopia, instead claims that the money now reverts to the King of Italy...
...upper lip, and shows a paunch (artificial). Magnificently he drives into Poland where, changing horses at a village near Marie's estate, he gets his first look at her. Count Walewski (Henry Stephenson) does not much care for the plan that his wife trade on the Emperor's interest to help Poland, but she tries it anyhow. When she interrupts Napoleon's ardors with a patriotic supplication, the Emperor becomes irritated but keeps her in mind. On his next trip he wins her heart with his dream for a United States of Europe. On an illicit honeymoon...
...life. Napoleon divorces Josephine (out of camera range). He arranges to wed Habsburg Marie Louise. Marie Walewska is disgusted. Says she: "'The savior of Europe has become a son-in-law." Not until after the retreat from Moscow does Marie have much more to do with the Emperor, except for bearing him a son. At Elba they are reunited and Marie agrees to take a message to his followers, telling them the eagle is returning, cured of royalty, to try once more his dream for the United States of Europe. When the dream has been dissolved at Waterloo, Marie...