Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King-Emperor Edward maintained his refusal to receive Emperor Haile Selassie in audience, but on the 45-year-old Ethiopian's birthday last week 42-year-old Edward VIII sent congratulations...
...Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...
...Pact of Berchtesgaden is that its authors simply feel they know what it means and are well pleased if any foreigners do not. Habsburg supporters of Archduke Otto were at first wild with fury last week, taking the Pact to mean that their candidate will not be restored as Emperor of Austria for 25 years. Then some of them took to looking wise and asking mysteriously: "Or does it not mean something else, perhaps the opposite...
Martial law was declared in Japan after fanatical junior Army officers assassinated three of Japan's leading statesmen (TIME, March 9). As a sign that martial law continues, the Divine Emperor and Son of Heaven, who prefers mufti, has been wearing nothing but military uniforms ever since. By his command an Extraordinary Court-Martial with unprecedented powers was set up under the presidency of General Count Juichi Terauchi, the new War Minister, to try the assassins. They were denied the right of being defended by lawyers, their trial was secret. Seventeen death sentences were furtively announced in the dead...
...assassins "claimed that statesmen close to the Throne had, ever since the London Naval Treaty was signed, been interfering with the Imperial prerogative." This was a poke at Prince Saionji, who is still His Majesty's chief adviser despite nebulous promises by the new Cabinet to make the Emperor and his prerogatives utterly supreme. Finally the assassins, like the new Cabinet, sought "to assure clarification of the national policy, expansion of national defense armaments and stabilization of the peoples-in a word, to bring about the so-called Showa Restoration" under which the Japanese Empire is to grow until...