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...days of King Alfonso XIII the finest network of concrete roads outside the U. S. and then omit to spend the few additional millions on advertising which would have made them teem with tourist cars. His Majesty personally did more to encourage tourists than has any other King or Emperor, would stop and shake hands with American Express Co. groups of 200 and more...
...King-Emperor Edward maintained his refusal to receive Emperor Haile Selassie in audience, but on the 45-year-old Ethiopian's birthday last week 42-year-old Edward VIII sent congratulations...
...presence of all his nobles." Of Lafayette: "Others have lived in the love of their own people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another?'' But the editor's favorite Great Character was Napoleon: "A Royalist, a republican, and an emperor; a Mohammedan, a Catholic, and a patron of the synagogue, a traitor and a tyrant, he was through all his vicissitudes a Man." When Editor McGuffey clipped from the German Press a bloody, harrowing account of a railway wreck, called it The Crazed Engineer, his publishers objected, cut it from...
Martial law was declared in Japan after fanatical junior Army officers assassinated three of Japan's leading statesmen (TIME, March 9). As a sign that martial law continues, the Divine Emperor and Son of Heaven, who prefers mufti, has been wearing nothing but military uniforms ever since. By his command an Extraordinary Court-Martial with unprecedented powers was set up under the presidency of General Count Juichi Terauchi, the new War Minister, to try the assassins. They were denied the right of being defended by lawyers, their trial was secret. Seventeen death sentences were furtively announced in the dead...
...assassins "claimed that statesmen close to the Throne had, ever since the London Naval Treaty was signed, been interfering with the Imperial prerogative." This was a poke at Prince Saionji, who is still His Majesty's chief adviser despite nebulous promises by the new Cabinet to make the Emperor and his prerogatives utterly supreme. Finally the assassins, like the new Cabinet, sought "to assure clarification of the national policy, expansion of national defense armaments and stabilization of the peoples-in a word, to bring about the so-called Showa Restoration" under which the Japanese Empire is to grow until...