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...Clemenceau had the full support of the U. S. in their effort to hang the Kaiser, until President Wilson found that the U. S. Senate would not ratify the Treaty of Versailles which reads in part: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality...
...Suicide Point has come even the Son of Heaven, sublime Emperor Hirohito. who ably repressed any impulse he may have felt to jump. For the common run of modern maladjusted Japanese a leap into the volcano seems infinitely more attractive than to plunge a dagger into his vitals in the classic way. Last week the usual group of perhaps 150 sightseers were clustered fascinated on the brink, regaled by their guide with gruesome suicide stories, when abruptly things began to happen...
...Night Is Young (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This pallid operetta deals heavily with a princeling's love for a commoner. The Austrian emperor's nephew and heir (Ramon Novarro) is enamored of a big-eyed, winsome ballet dancer (Evelyn Laye), hired to cover his dalliance with a countess. Duty demands that he marry a princess and in the end he does so but not before he and the dancer spend an apparently comfortable night on top of a Ferris wheel...
Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Napoleon, spent some 35 years attempting to become Emperor of the French. He finally succeeded. But according to Historian Philip Guedalla he should have died on the day of his coronation. For the story which Guedalla told in his The Second Empire is one of anticlimax, of a nouveau riche court, a theme for irony and wisecracks, the Napoleonic legend reduced to farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter...
...will be its unhappy heir, will suffer from it. . . . You have destroyed the promise of '48, Louis, not only in France, but the world over; and you have destroyed a great deal more than that. . . . You are liberal-minded, and will destroy liberalism; for, as a professedly liberal emperor, smiling and amiable, you will establish yourself as a tyrant, in order to keep yourself firmly seated in the saddle. . . . You, a man who hates bloodshed, will sow the seeds of bloodshed. . . . You are not a man to be envied . . . for your good fortune...