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Many interesting medals received by President Eliot after his resignation in 1909 may also be seen. He was given the Order of the Crown of Italy by the King of Italy, the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan, the Order of the Crown of Prussia by the German Emperor, the Order of St. Sava by the King of the Serbs, Creates, and Slovenes, the Legion of Honor by the President of the French Republic, and the Order of the Crown by the King of the Belgians...
Peiping, and popped him on the throne in the middle of a July night. With Japanese money and the first airplanes used in a Chinese war, ousted Premier Tuan Chi-sui captured the city a few days later and gave Emperor Hsuan Tung 30 minutes to abdicate...
Bicycling is one of his hobbies. As a Japanese puppet he dares not leave his palace unguarded, so he rides around and around his garden compound, doing tricks. The Emperor of Manchukuo can now pedal on the rear wheel alone, with the front wheel in the air. Photography is another pastime. Henry Pu Yi likes to show his own cinemas after dinner and complains sometimes that visiting tourists never send him copies of the snapshots for which he is always willing to pose...
...nominal ruler of 30,000,000 Manchukuans, of whom less than 10% are full-blooded Manchus, Henry Pu Yi's intentions are of the best. Month ago he gave his first interview as Emperor-to-be. Henry Pu Yi wore the new khaki uniform of a Manchukuan Field Marshal with which the Japanese Government had fitted him out, complete with embroidered orchids on the epaulets, and gleaming field boots. Though he speaks English perfectly an interpreter solemnly translated questions and answers. He announced...
...could have his way Henry Pu Yi would like to be proclaimed constitutional Emperor of Manchukuo with as simple and comfortable a ceremony as the proclamation of last week's other new monarch, Leopold III of Belgium. But the Japan that picked him from the Chinese discard ten years ago has not paid his bills for nothing. Japan needs him as a symbol before the world of Manchukuo's independence, a hollow-eyed figurehead to distract Manchurian peasants with the pomp of a royal court...