Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wreck, Put-putting motorboats carried the French and British out from their hotel to Emperor Napoleon's erstwhile palace on an island where Benito Mussolini slept nightly last week in "the Josephine bed." Il Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands...
...befits a German Emperor, which he is in all but name, Realmleader Hitler sat alone ahead of the congregation. Realmbishop Ludwig Muller pronounced the words of holy matrimony, almost the only thing he has done without public dispute since Catholic Hitler raised him from the rank of army chaplain to be the most unpopular head of Protestantism Germany has ever had. To Muller's question "Do you take this woman. . . ?" Göring replied "JA!" with the bellow of a drill sergeant. The State Actress answered "ja" so softly she could scarcely be heard...
...Constitutional lawyer Dr. Tatsukichi Minobe. Quietly taught from Dr. Minobe's two standard textbooks in Japanese universities for 30 years, this constitutional concept was suddenly spotted two months ago by outraged Japanese jingoes (TIME, March 18). Not exactly contradicting the official legend that the Emperor of Japan is descended from the Sun Goddess, Dr. Minobe's works soberly refer to the Son of Heaven as "an organ of the Nation." What is more important, Dr. Minobe has steadfastly opposed the bullying of Japanese politicians by the Army and Navy, even advised the Government that the Cabinet can constitutionally...
Since an orchid is the puppet Emperor's official flower, his Legation in Tokyo was decked with 750 orchids. Wherever he appeared Japanese schoolchildren, drilled for weeks in a Hymn to Manchukuo, shrilled it. In Tokyo he was quartered in Akasaka Palace, a replica of the Trianon Palace at Versailles and in 1922 the Tokyo residence of Edward of Wales. There Boss Endo suddenly popped up to announce: "While Emperor Rang Te is here no political matters will be discussed. None whatever. The Manchukuan Constitution effectively keeps the Manchukuo Court out of politics...
...perhaps the most public purchase of munitions on record, Emperor Haile Selassie last week gave Premier Benito Mussolini something to think about by going down to the terminus of Abyssinia's French-owned railway* and taking delivery of what His Majesty referred to as 400 machine guns, 20,000 rifles and 6,000,000 rounds of ammunition made in Czechoslovakia and Belgium. II Duce's air-tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed...