Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers in North China have been suppressed. Chinese and Japanese censorship remained ironclad. Japanese bombing planes thundered menacingly over Peiping. In Tientsin with feverish activity Japanese architects and landscape gardeners started doing over a onetime Imperial residence as if it might soon be occupied by Japan's puppet Emperor Rang Te of Manchukuo, the onetime authentic Emperor Hsuan Tung...
Other Italian papers charged that a certain Lieut.-Colonel Clifford from British Somaliland has said that Ethiopia's Emperor is willing to place his country under British protection for 25 years as the best insurance against Italy's designs...
...British Hypocrisy!" shrieked Il Messaggero. "Great Britain has promised a subsidy to the Emperor of Ethiopia to give the Ethiopian troops regular pay." In Rome the Dictator's press office told Italian reporters that "the natives of Ethiopia are so excited that now nothing can stop them. They think they have English support...
...sinecure called Lord President of the Council, he has in fact made the National Government's most vital pronouncements, such as his famed "The Rhine-that is where our frontier lies!" (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week Mr. Baldwin, arrayed by his valet for audience with the King-Emperor, waited serenely while George V in Buckingham Palace had a nice long tea with James Ramsay MacDonald...
...Heaven, studious, introspective Emperor Hirohito, distracted Palace officials rushed with tidings that the Divine Monarch's youngest brother, His Imperial Highness Prince Sumi, 19, had just been bitten by a dog. According to official announcements both dog and prince were "detailed for observation" in Narashino Military Hospital but at latest reports neither had shown signs of rabies and Prince Sumi's wound was called slight...