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...general feels the future of the League of Nations to be at stake in the future of a Museum of Peoples in Africa; and in impressing even his own French doctor with his courage, his elevated moral stature and his peculiar genius for browbeating Ethiopians while he charms foreigners. Emperor Haile Selassie emerged in 1935 not only as Man of the Year but as the world's own inimitable "Little Charlie" for as many years to come as health sustains...
...Deal. Few months ago Dr. Sassard wrote of his patient: "The Emperor will undoubtedly fight at the head of his troops." In ringing proclamations His Majesty has more than once promised to do so. Simple Ethiopians expect any ruler worth his salt to remain for the duration of the war physically in the thick of the fight. Instead, both before hostilities began and since. Haile Selassie has kept Europe's diplomats well supplied with offers to make peace by selling or bartering parts of the empire, emitting at the same time declarations to the world press that he will...
...Addis Ababa warrior chiefs of the Noble Savage type bitterly and contemptuously complain, "Our Emperor is a businessman!" They should thank Ethiopia's stars. The astounding marvel is that Africa's unique Museum of Peoples has produced a businessman-with high-pressure publicity, compelling sales talk, the morals of a patent medicine advertisement, a grasp of both savage and diplomatic mentality, and finally with plenty of what Hollywood calls IT. The Emperor was "too smart" only once in 1935, when he tried by granting the Rickett Concession to Standard Oil to embroil the U. S. directly in Ethiopia...
...Japan's policy in China for the new year. Last week he was provided with a sufficiently obvious clue. A potent Japanese advocate of moderation has been wise old Count Nobuaki Makino. As Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal for ten years, trusted adviser and old friend to Emperor Hirohito, he has frequently stood off the more rabid proposals of the militarists. He is a standard name on every Japanese patriot's list marked for assassination, has been bombed twice. Last week Count Makino surrendered to the unceasing pressure brought against him by the Army men, pleaded...
...cloak into a toga to save what he might from the wreck of Judea. Thereafter he never completely got back his countrymen's confidence, never altogether won the Romans' respect. Josephus himself was never quite sure how he stood with himself. When his hated master, the Emperor Vespasian, died and his friend Titus came to the throne, Josephus' wave curled to its crest. Reading over the new edition of his famed book, the Jewish War, gazing at his bust in Rome's Temple of Peace, where only the greatest writers were immortalized, he could...