Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gleeful in England last week, ex-Emperor Haile Selassie hinted that he would send to the Coronation his favorite son-in-law, the doughty Ras (General) Desta Demtu, who was still in Ethiopia last week commanding the remnants of a native army. Few-hours later an Italian-led column of Ethiopian troops swooped down and routed the Ethiopian stragglers of Ras Desta Demtu. According to the Italian official version, Haile Selassie's designated Coronation envoy was implicated in the attempt to assassinate Italy's Viceroy in Addis Ababa by means of hand grenades (TIME, March 1). In short...
...vulgar, the present King quickly replied with perfect truth, "You can tell your firm that I make my own films of my daughters." Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted, grinning crew to help their King & Emperor shoot a scene...
...German, Japanese, Italian, Polish and Portuguese ministers to the Rumanian Court last week attended the funeral of two members of the anti-Semitic Rumanian Iron Guard killed in Spain in action under the White standard. It seemed to these five experienced diplomats that Carol II, Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, Mussolini, Smigly-Rydz of Poland and Salazar of Portugal all want the Spanish war to end in Red defeat, and they were probably right, but in attending the Iron Guard funeral last week they had momentarily forgotten Mme. Lupescu-a dangerous thing to do in Bucharest...
Soviet newspaper readers last week were bug-eyed at a trial in Manchukuo which seemed to them as deliberate a miscarriage of justice as the Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trials must have seemed to Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Te, Japan's bland puppet. To Red Russians there is nowhere a more detestable body of men than the "White Guards" in Manchukuo, a group of ex-Tsarist soldiers, aristocrats and riff-raff who live just outside the Soviet Union border, expecting momentarily and scheming year after year for "the collapse of Bolshevism...
...Singing Boys date back to 1498 when Emperor Maximilian I founded a choir to supply music for his chapel. After his death other Habsburgs subsidized the choir. It became one of the foremost groups in Europe. Haydn and Schubert were sängerknaben until their voices changed. The Habsburgs would not have their boy sopranos castrated, though this practice was common enough in 17th and 18th-Century Europe...