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...Socialist Republics ever been strong enough, despite its present "World's Largest Army" (see p. 15), to outbluff, much less outfight, a resolute adversary like Japan. With boundless insolence the yellow men, as they bought Stalin's railway for a song last week, actually egged their puppet Emperor of Manchukuo to extend official recognition to the Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Throne of Russia. One more insult to Stalin & Co. came when Emperor Kang Te announced that while all Red Russian employes of the C. E. R. are to be fired, all its White Russian employes...
...roots in French literature (he speaks no English) and he used to call himself "Henri Waung." In 1903 he graduated from Tokyo Law College and attached himself to Dr. Sun. In 1909 he rushed to Peking for a bold effort to assassinate Prince Regent Chun, father of the Boy-Emperor who was then China's Son-of-Heaven, now reigns as Manchukuo's puppet Emperor...
Strictly off the record, eight Japanese statesmen out of ten will readily admit to not believing the official legend that their Emperor is descended from the Sun Goddess. "We regard our Emperor with the respect Catholics feel for their Pope," they often say in private. Yet last week in the Japanese Parliament, sturdy old Premier Admiral Okada was put sternly on the record. Did he or did he not, demanded Baron Kiyozumi Inouye, hold with Japan's eminent Constitutional authority Dr. Tatsuki Minobe who has just created a nation-wide furor by alluding to the Son-of-Heaven...
Baron Inouye, whose purpose seemed to be to bait the Premier and his Cabinet, then made the supposedly superpatriotic and Emperor-worshipping Defense Ministers sweat by demanding: "Will the Army and Navy drive this theory out of Japan...
...teau? He built it. A woman? He took her. The Mona Lisa? He bought it. Another province? He raised an army. But his political ambitions ended by embroiling him in a complicated series of expensive wars, and at the battle of Pavia he was captured by the German Emperor Charles V, imprisoned in Madrid and held for a nearly ruinous ransom...