Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was a far more noncommittal gesture than Woodrow Wilson's cablegram to Emperor Franz Josef on Aug. 4, 1914, offering "to act in the interest of European peace." Yet to the increasingly numerous U. S. sympathizers with the Czechs, it was still a gesture. England, France and South America applauded it, Czechoslovakia welcomed it. Upon the one man whom it would do any good to move it had less effect. As the Cabinet convened this week to discuss the deepening European crisis, Adolf Hitler's reply to Washington was a lengthy lecture restating, in more didactic language...
...only nation on the American continent which recognizes Japan's four-year-old puppet state of Manchukuo is tiny, coffee-producing El Salvador. Last week, in belated appreciation of El Salvador's gesture, made in March 1934 owl-eyed, thick-lipped Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Teh was graciously pleased to decorate El Salvador's Strong Man, swart, curly-haired President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Araujo and the Salvadorean Consul General in Tokyo, León Siguenza...
Little does it matter to spurned Manchukuo that many a chancellery believes that El Salvador first recognized the puppet state by mistake. The story goes that on the day that Henry Pu Yi became Emperor Kang Teh, his Minister of Foreign Relations sent an announcement to all foreign offices. Since the League of Nations, to which El Salvador then belonged, had passed a resolution binding all League members to nonrecognition, the foreign offices of these nations ignored the announcement. But in El Salvador a sleepy under secretary in the Foreign Ministry, assuming that diplomatic courtesy demanded a reply, answered with...
...thousands of flimsy wood & paper Japanese homes collapsed. Modern skyscrapers stood firm, but railway and electric services were suspended over much of the Empire. Japanese reported as a notable disaster the uprooting of a clump of ancient willow trees near the moat of the Imperial Palace of their Divine Emperor...
...Rome, the Messaggero reported that the golden crown of deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, studded with 718 diamonds, had been placed on sale by a London jeweler for $2,500. "A great bargain at such a small price," exclaimed the Messaggero, "provided the diamonds are not made of glass...