Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibly Italian officialdom knew precisely what it was the mere rumor of which had so upset Moscow. Because dispatches from Japan are always severely censored, the best indication seemed to be that Japanese official censors passed last week dispatches in which Tokyo correspondents claimed to have heard 1) that Emperor Hirohito had before him for signature a German-Japanese form of declaration approved Nov. 13 by a committee of the Japanese Privy Council and Nov. 16 by the full Council; 2) that this declaration will constitute "not a military alliance but a defensive pact of a novel kind...
...This sort of malicious snub recently provoked His Majesty personally to write Mrs. Simpson's name in his Court Circular and thus force the London Times to print it (TIME, Oct. 26), but last week Editor Dawson of the Times appeared to be again baiting his King- Emperor...
...Next day Hearst papers announced that 80 of the 100 questioned declared themselves in favor of such a match. Hearstmen then queried British officials in every Dominion and in India without finding any who cared to go on record as opposed to a marriage of the King-Emperor and Wallis Warfield Simpson...
...four o'clock in the afternoon of April 4, 1814, Armand de Caulaincourt, Napoleon's dour, devoted Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived at Essonnes, on the road to Paris. He carried the Emperor's abdication in favor of his son, and instructions for a project so audacious it had a good chance of succeeding. The Allied Armies had taken Paris four days prior. Headed by Talleyrand, a movement for the restoration of the Bourbons was gaining strength. Only Napoleon could visualize a plan of action in this "hour of his vast reverses." The situation...
...would be impractical for the Emperor of India to intervene in this most delicate Hindu matter but last week His Highness Sir Rama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore celebrated his 24th birthday by issuing a proclamation hailed as the most important Hindu reform in almost a millennium...