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...Heaven himself went down to greet the onetime occupant of China's Dragon Throne. Correspondents, kept back with the Tokyo populace to a distance of one block on either side of the imperial route, spitefully cabled that they could not be sure they had seen the Emperor of Manchukuo, hinted that a double might have been used to prevent his assassination...
When is a puppet not a puppet? Japan's answer is that the world simply must take seriously a crowned head in whose honor she deployed last week the Japanese combined fleets of more than 70 potent battle craft, each blazing away the 21-gun salute of an Emperor. This supreme honor Japan paid to a foreigner for the first time when Emperor Kang Te, in his babyhood the last Manchu ruler of China, approached Japan for the first time in his life on the Japanese Emperor's own flagship the Hiyei, his deeply sculptured features impassive beneath...
...retinue of 74 accompanied the Chinese whom Japan would like to make Emperor of China as well as of Manchukuo. In this retinue the little round tummy of Mr. Ryusaku Endo was prominent. In Manchukuo he bosses the Emperor, holds the all-embracing title of Secretary General of Manchukuan Affairs. Last week he began by effacing himself so that for once in his life the puppet Emperor could shine...
Since an orchid is the puppet Emperor's official flower, his Legation in Tokyo was decked with 750 orchids. Wherever he appeared Japanese schoolchildren, drilled for weeks in a Hymn to Manchukuo, shrilled it. In Tokyo he was quartered in Akasaka Palace, a replica of the Trianon Palace at Versailles and in 1922 the Tokyo residence of Edward of Wales. There Boss Endo suddenly popped up to announce: "While Emperor Rang Te is here no political matters will be discussed. None whatever. The Manchukuan Constitution effectively keeps the Manchukuo Court out of politics...
...perhaps the most public purchase of munitions on record, Emperor Haile Selassie last week gave Premier Benito Mussolini something to think about by going down to the terminus of Abyssinia's French-owned railway* and taking delivery of what His Majesty referred to as 400 machine guns, 20,000 rifles and 6,000,000 rounds of ammunition made in Czechoslovakia and Belgium. II Duce's air-tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed...