Word: empress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Satsuma Empress, In the new Cabinet Baron Yamamoto, the Home Minister, is a Satsuma. In Japan it is an axiom that "The Home Ministry makes the election." Why did the Son of Heaven consent to a Satsuma in this key post? Court gossip had it last week that Emperor HirohitO' and his ancient adviser Prince Saionji, 83, had both been swayed by another adviser who is the Son of Heaven's close friend, Count Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal-a Satsuma...
...that matter so is Her Majesty the Empress a Satsuma. Last week Japanese, always inclined to read the present from the past, discussed the new Cabinet and the current Japanese crisis in terms of the 31-year-old Emperor's career, recalled that he has always been in his quiet way a precedent smasher and that the first major precedent he smashed was to marry for love outside the strict circle of Japan's Five Eligible Families...
...that is true. But the vanished Kipling is but the vanished empire, the current which vitalized Kipling was the imperial spirit of the Victorian age. A new race, which knows not the white man's burden, is at work. The White Hussars no longer drink to Queen and Empress in broken glass, and respect for the Sahib has ceased to awe the naygurs. Lalum, who was like unto Lilith, now imitates her western sisters as she sees them portrayed in the cinema...
King Prajadhipok of Siam, restored to almost normal eyesight by his U. S. operation (TIME, May 18,. now looks at Bangkok with one eye through clear glass, with the other eye through faintly brown glass, according to passengers on the world-cruiser Empress of Britain which returned to Manhattan last week carrying 95 widows and 336 other passengers. Notables: June, famed London actress, divorced wife of Lord Inverclyde, who boarded ship at San Francisco as did her onetime friend Woolf Barnato (son of the late South African Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato) with his bride...
Forty feet underground in the vault of London Safe Deposit Co., the Queen-Empress used her key, locked up a packet she had brought from Buckingham Palace...