Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends of Democracy did their best to temporize, talked of referring matters to The Hague Court-anything for delay. When short-sighted Turkish Foreign Minister Tewtik Rushtu Aras first sat down he did not notice that in the new League building had been hung a magnificent antique tapestry depicting Emperor Charles V driving the Turkish barbarians in confusion from Vienna in the year 1529. When through his thick-lensed spectacles Dr. Aras at last saw this he raised a shrill rumpus and the League, as a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Mustafa Kamal Atatürk, hastily removed the tapestry...
Although there is little liveliness in Author du Coudray's discussions of the metaphysics of diplomacy, the high point of her book is her account of the Congress of Vienna which cost the Austrian Emperor $30,000,000 and was attended by "five sovereigns, two hundred and sixteen heads of families and a host of lesser princes, ambassadors, envoys and intruders." Fourteen hundred horses were kept for their use. Court dinners were served on 40 tables. An army of secret police spied on the guests, so that every day the Austrians knew what had happened in bedrooms, at luncheons...
...Paris at the age of 33, soon established himself despite the fact that he represented a defeated country and that Austrian aristocrats could scarcely bring themselves to be civil to Napoleon or his ministers. Since Napoleon liked to talk with him, he soon detected two qualities in the Emperor that he afterwards used effectively in dealing with him. The first was that Napoleon was always laying the ground for future action while seeming to be absorbed in immediate affairs. The second was that Napoleon's cynicism and his belief in the limitless corruptibility of human beings was a deep...
Messrs. Edgell and Tomita knew their project was a success when Emperor Hirohito let it be known that he was willing to lend several of his own personal pieces to Boston, would permit the exporting of a certain number of "National Treasures" from state museums. A deluge of offers followed. Director Edgell, whose personal knowledge of Japanese art is rudimentary, left the selection to his associate Mr. Tomita, spent 26 days drinking tea and saki with Japanese wrestlers, silk tycoons, bankers, enjoyed himself immensely...
...light wooden masks, the personal property of the Emperor, used by the gigaku temple dancers in the 7th Century...