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...Chinese Communist leader in 1937. Last week as spring burgeoned, the Chinese people prepared to celebrate anew their Ching Ming or "Day of Spring Wind" Festival. The Nanking Government decided to invite various Chinese bigwigs on a nationalistic junket to the tomb at Chungpu of the legendary "First Chinese Emperor, Huang Ti." It was not expected that the semi-independent Chinese Communist regime headed by rough & ready General Mao Tse-tung would wish to send a Red to kowtow before the dust of the late Emperor, dead these 4,532 years. But some Nanking bureaucrat dispatched an invitation, just...
...likely to raise the kudos of Red Mao among the Chinese masses that strict censorship killed the story entirely out of all newsorgans controlled by the Nanking Government, and it was forbidden even to print that a Red had done anything so estimable as do homage to an Emperor of the glorious past. As a matter of curious Chinese fact, the Red Lin Po-chu of last week is the same Mr. Lin who in his youth had a job in the Imperial Manchu Government, is today a Red best fitted to do Emperor-homage in the way in which...
Professor Kiyoshi Shiratori, of the Peers' College of Tokyo, will give a lecture in Emerson 211 tomorrow evening, at 8 o'clock on "The Origin of the Japanese Race and the 'Utsutsu-Gami' (the Emperor in terms of the religious belief of the Japanese Race...
Married. Prince Pu Chieh, 31, brother of Japan's Puppet Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo, heir presumptive to the throne; and Hiroko Saga, 23, granddaughter of Japanese Prince Kinto Saga; in Tokyo...
...pure preRaphaelite, she was actually more like an emancipated Bryn Mawr girl. With her towering brother Adrian (6 ft. 5 in.), and some friends, she was a party to the famed hoax on a British admiral and the entire ship's company of H.M.S. Dreadnought. Disguised as the Emperor of Abyssinia & party (see cut. p. 93), they were brought aboard with due ceremony, barely restrained the captain from ordering a 21-gun salute, got safely away undiscovered...