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Boarding an airplane provided by the Emperor to take him to an unannounced destination, Promoter Rickett fired this parting shot: "I should like to say to Mussolini, who is an old friend, that there is plenty of room for Italy to participate in the exploitation of such a hospitable land as Ethiopia without starting...
...London neither the City nor Whitehall could believe that Sir Sidney Barton, the British Minister at Addis Ababa who has always been described as "extremely close to the Emperor," could have proved so ineffective as to have been ignorant that a concession of this magnitude was being negotiated under his nose. Nonetheless, Britain's Foreign Office reacted to the news from Ethiopia with every outward show of consternation. Neither Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare nor League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden could at first be reached, the sacrosanct British weekend having begun, but Foreign Office underlings at once realized...
...right paw, also well placed, nipped out from the Foreign Office a statement that Emperor Power of Trinity was being advised by the British Government to "withhold" whatever concession or concessions he may have granted. Exclaimed His Majesty: "Surely the British Government cannot interfere in a concession granted to the United States! . . . I gave the concession to Standard Oil." By this time Fat Chaps had arrived in French Somaliland and realized that he had embarrassed London by announcing in Addis Ababa that some of his backers are British. Said Promoter Rickett, changing his tune, "The capital of the African Development...
...punishment should be firm. Subordinates must be respectful toward their superiors, and even when expressing firm convictions must not forget the important rules of discipline. The Army, in brief, must be united from head to foot in a consciousness of its high mission to serve the nation and the Emperor...
...rails of Japan's famed South Manchuria Railway. An economic spear stuck halfway up into Manchuria, the S. M. R. was the chugging juggernaut that carried Japanese troops to their scrappy victories. Soon Hsinking, the point of the S. M. R. spear, became the capital of puppet Emperor Henry Pu Yi (TIME, March 5, 1934). Beyond that point, S. M. R. trains have been unable to go on over a spur of the Chinese Eastern to the great Russianized city of Harbin because prudent Tsar Nicholas II had Russia's rails spaced 3½ inches farther apart than...