Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor Haile Selassie ordered 5.000 troops from Addis Ababa to suppress a mutiny in Gojjam, where the rumored death of Ras Hailu, deposed as Governor two years ago, was attributed to His Majesty. The Emperor's spokesmen said Gojjam's mutineers had been duped by Italian propaganda...
Britain authorized Sir Sidney Barton, His Majesty's Minister at Addis Ababa, to act on behalf of the Swedish Government (which has no representative in Ethiopia) and demand an official report from the Emperor...
...Japan's policy in China for the new year. Last week he was provided with a sufficiently obvious clue. A potent Japanese advocate of moderation has been wise old Count Nobuaki Makino. As Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal for ten years, trusted adviser and old friend to Emperor Hirohito, he has frequently stood off the more rabid proposals of the militarists. He is a standard name on every Japanese patriot's list marked for assassination, has been bombed twice. Last week Count Makino surrendered to the unceasing pressure brought against him by the Army men, pleaded...
...cloak into a toga to save what he might from the wreck of Judea. Thereafter he never completely got back his countrymen's confidence, never altogether won the Romans' respect. Josephus himself was never quite sure how he stood with himself. When his hated master, the Emperor Vespasian, died and his friend Titus came to the throne, Josephus' wave curled to its crest. Reading over the new edition of his famed book, the Jewish War, gazing at his bust in Rome's Temple of Peace, where only the greatest writers were immortalized, he could...
...dangerous new sect called Minaeans or Christians, by the iron orthodoxy of the Jewish doctors of the Law. Sadly he returned to Rome again, determined to be neither hidebound Roman nor hidebound Jew but a citizen of the world. He got back in time to see his emperor Titus die, to be evicted from his house by the new Emperor Domitian, to be made a public mock by the rabble of Rome...