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...Buckingham Palace carrying enormous scrolls. Their obstreperous State had decided by referendum to secede from the Australian Commonwealth and seek self-governing status under the Crown (TIME. April 17, 1933). The scrolls, crammed with the signatures of Western Australians who demand this change, will be referred by the King-Emperor to his Lords and Commons when they reconvene this week...
Three months ago the Son-of-Heaven, cloistered Emperor Hirohito, proclaimed a National Oil Business Law so bold and drastic that at first it was scarcely taken seriously outside Japan. Provisions: 1) foreign oil companies doing business in Japan must build additional storage tanks and keep always on hand a six-months' supply of petroleum in addition to their normal needs; 2) they are subject to quota restrictions on retail sales which thus far have been rigged to favor Japanese oil companies at the foreigners' expense; 3) the Government reserves the right "in case of emergency" to purchase...
Japanese everlastingly complain that the hairy foreigners* seduce their diplomats by subtle arguments and barrages of press propaganda which beat daily upon the sensitive Japanese who are striving to do their best for Emperor and Fatherland...
Bubbling with elation, Dr. Hans Lammers, Secretary of State to the Realmleader, announced that Adolf Hitler now considers himself German Chief Executive for life (i.e. German emperor in all but name). Addressing the Berlin Civil Service Academy, Dr. Lammers advised them that "Cabinet ministers are now responsible only to the Leader and no longer to the Reichstag. The new fealty oath eliminates the possibility of a minister voting against the Leader...
...coffin for the body of the murdered King. There was not time for an entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb on the hill of Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon lie. From their catalog, Julius Maschner & Son chose the same model coffin...