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...that news mentions of King Edward and Mrs. Simpson have been snipped out of periodicals before they could be sold on newsstands in Great Britain, recently put a firm query to the Foreign Office: Could this form of British censorship be enlarged to include the sacred person of the Emperor of Japan...
...Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...
...Pact of Berchtesgaden is that its authors simply feel they know what it means and are well pleased if any foreigners do not. Habsburg supporters of Archduke Otto were at first wild with fury last week, taking the Pact to mean that their candidate will not be restored as Emperor of Austria for 25 years. Then some of them took to looking wise and asking mysteriously: "Or does it not mean something else, perhaps the opposite...
...Uncle David" seemed again last week the boyish Prince of Wales and not the 42-year-old King-Emperor when he went out to test the British Admiralty's new "Flea Boats." These are high-speed motorboats firing torpedoes. For months British capital ships infesting Italian waters have been bothered by such "Fleas...
Just now, they thought, it is extremely risky to publish an edition of the Church of England's Prayer Book. Reason: If the King-Emperor marries, prayers will have to be included for the Queen-Empress. Last week the Prayer Book's printers rushed to Lloyd's, insured themselves heavily...