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...sacred Japanese Emperor leads the parade of personalities in the newest Almanac de Gunther, as the author discusses his divinity, ancestry, poetry, wealth, family and advisers. After that, among many others, come the venerable, 89-year-old Prince Saionji, last of the Genro; jingoistic Baron Kuchiro Hiranuma, who as Premier has an earthquake-and-assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses...
Prince Konoye led a hot youth but was early marked for advancement by potent old Prince Saionji, now the 87-year-old Last of the Genro and chief adviser to the Throne. To the Versailles Peace Conference shrewd old Saionji took the then young Konoye, baptized him in diplomacy and statecraft. After revered Saionji returned to Japan he continued to groom the Prince with care, saw to it that Konoye at only 42 became President of the House of Peers, most of whose members are three decades older. It became a settled thing among Japanese insiders that...
Liberal Without Sacrilege-Last spring came the moment for which old Saionji had been grooming his protege. The Cabinet of Premier General Senjuro Hayashi was forced out and thereupon the Last of the Genro produced from his ample kimono sleeve the "Liberal Prince" to be Premier (TIME, June...
...political parties, the Japanese electorate and the Emperor were immensely relieved, felt that the tide of militarism had at last turned. As always before choosing a new Premier, the Emperor immediately got in touch with 88-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (elder statesmen) who advised the late great Emperor Meiji. The ancient Prince had the very man groomed for such an emergency - dapper 45-year-old Prince Fumimaro Konoye, president of the House of Peers, an independent, nonparty aristocrat who was nominated for Premier three years ago while he was in New York taking the temperature...
...first time in 86-year-old Prince Saionji's experience the Last of the Genro had made publicly ready to play a smashing trump and failed to get it down his sleeve. If the Fujiwara godling could not sit on Japan's lid last week, then who could...