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Asia's War Lord is that most repressed, overeducated and modest of monarchs, the Son of Heaven, His Majesty the Tenno or Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Last week to London from Tokyo flashed a stiff diplomatic note replying to that in which Britain last July 15 announced that she has "invoked the escalator clause" of the London Naval Treaty. In plain words this meant that because Adolf Hitler has torn up the Treaty of Versailles and is building Germany a forbidden navy, Stanley Baldwin has torn up the limitations on British naval building in the London Treaty. Unlike Herr...
This will make Emperor Hirohito the world's Sub-Sea Lord. Japanese, as they read this proud news, found last week in Tokyo rotogravure sections an appropriate picture of the coming Sub-Sea Lord's youngest brother Prince Takahito almost totally submerged, swimming his horse across a river in Japan's latest military maneuvers (see cut). Britain, the U. S. and Japan have now all given notice that they are retaining in their navies numbers of old warships which were originally to have been scrapped under the London Treaty...
Messrs. Edgell and Tomita knew their project was a success when Emperor Hirohito let it be known that he was willing to lend several of his own personal pieces to Boston, would permit the exporting of a certain number of "National Treasures" from state museums. A deluge of offers followed. Director Edgell, whose personal knowledge of Japanese art is rudimentary, left the selection to his associate Mr. Tomita, spent 26 days drinking tea and saki with Japanese wrestlers, silk tycoons, bankers, enjoyed himself immensely...
...light wooden masks, the personal property of the Emperor, used by the gigaku temple dancers in the 7th Century...
...Emperor Haile Selassie, now dwelling quietly in the English countryside near London but insisting that a most warlike Ethiopian Government is on the rampage in "Western Ethiopia" against the conquering Italians, has created a keen news market for dispatches about this invisible "Government." Last week U. S. newsorgans began to carry stories dated overnight from "Gore, Western Ethiopia." They appeared to have originated by radio from Gore, referred to "the provisional Government here," declared that quantities of ammunition captured from Italians have passed through Gore in recent weeks, and named as the Gore Government's military leader Ras Imru...