Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patiala rode in a State carriage behind his King, together with His Majesty's other Honorary Indian Aides-de-Camp: H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, H. H. the Maharaja of Bikaner and the Nawab Malik Sir Umar Hayat Khan. In this attendance on the King Emperor the kings find their highest prestige. Because the Maharaja of Bikaner is today the Prince in waiting to George V of the Indian Empire, he plans to stop in London for a year. English friends call him "The Englishman," their highest praise. Last week "The Englishman" took an entire floor...
...mountains of congratulations which poured in on the 25th anniversary of their accession. Only one of these messages made world news, that from Adolf Hitler: "Cordial wishes . . . warm sympathy . . . benediction for the entire world." This Herr Hitler signed modestly not with his present title Realmleader-more grandiose than Emperor- but merely with his subsidiary title Chancellor...
...Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Queen Mother Elisabeth of the Belgians, Alfonso of Spain; autographed photographs of Elisabeth, Alfonso, many a notable in government and medicine:* decorations from Belgium, France, Spain, Rumania. Fastened to red velvet and framed in gold is the "original key used by the ex-Emperor of Germany during his sojourn in France at the Hotel du Nord, Charleville...
Unlike Britain's King-Emperor, Japan's Son of Heaven provides no "courts" at which dowagers and debutantes can curtsy, but like George V, Hirohito does give garden parties. Last week 7,000 socialite Japanese, many in gorgeous court kimonos of rarest silk, and some 700 foreigners among whom missionaries, businessmen and journalists outnumbered diplomats, arrived for the Imperial...
Since the Emperor & Empress are young & strong, their guests waited confidently in the rain, Britishers recalling that at Buckingham Palace garden parties Their Majesties have marquees run up in case of bad weather, receive with undiminished graciousness under canvas. Last week Tokyo flunkies rushed about the palace garden in jittery excitement while guests huddled under trees. It kept on raining and Their Majesties simply did not appear. With an estimated $200,000 worth of silken kimonos sodden and streaked, Japanese socialites slipped quietly away, but most foreign guests as they departed made audible remarks...