Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yellow Emperor v. White Queen. Conditions in The Netherlands are sane, as that term is understood by Queen Wilhelmina, who said in her last Speech from the Throne, "This country stands for sanity...
...empire in the world (59,000,000 natives). Great Powers may not care a great deal what happens to or in the Kingdom of The Netherlands but the destiny of the white race may prove to be that of the Netherlands Empire. If the small yellow subjects of Japanese Emperor Hirohito succeed in filching away from Queen Wilhelmina's big white subjects the No. 3 colonial empire of the world, what about France's No. 2 colonial empire and Britain's No. 1? To Dutchmen, firmly convinced that they are sane, it was the supreme irony last...
...Japan proper the object of Fascist Matsuoka and his clique is to crush all political parties and usher in a "Showa Restoration" of imperialistic militarism sanctified by fanatical devotion to the Emperor as Son of Heaven (see below). Said the new President of S. M. R., who is expected to establish as soon as possible a Development Company for North China: "I have assumed the Presidency of the South Manchuria Railway with the firm determination to become active on the Asiatic mainland. Japan is going to start operations in North China. The arrow has left the bow! Most Japanese...
...Almighty God, things would have been a good deal easier this week for the Japanese Cabinet of terrified old Premier Keisuke Okada. For months Japanese jingoes have been trying to upset the Cabinet with charges that it has insufficiently defended the sanctity of the Divine Emperor (TIME, March 18 et seq.). Last week they were able to scream until Tokyo's welkin rang that the Cabinet had failed to prevent the introduction into Japan of the August issue of Vanity Fair in which appeared a cartoon of His Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, the Son of Heaven...
...lowly and menial attitude of a huckster drawing through the streets a cart on which lay a rolled-up paper supposed to be the Nobel Peace Prize. What Vanity Fair's cartoonist might be getting at was obscure to Japanese, but he had dared to cartoon the Divine Emperor, and he had placed the Son of Heaven in an attitude which made Japanese blood boil. What, Japanese wanted to know, was President Roosevelt going to do about it? A cablegram hurled from Tokyo with the urgency of a thunderbolt caught crinkly-eyed Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito...