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...News to millions of cinemaddicts is the fact that the political balance of Japan, hence the peace of the Orient, centres on 85-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, Last of the Genro. It is this Elder Statesman who most often makes up the imperial mind of the Son of Heaven. Yet this potent old Japanese has been completely missed by U. S. newsreels. Therefore to the tiny fishing village of Okitsu went the newscameras of The March of Time, with the result that shots of Prince Saionji, guarded night & day by 40 soldiers, sitting on his flower-bordered porch reading...
...operation by bigwigs was vastly heartening and re-enactment by hired actors became less important. Occasionally, however, certain transitions in the news narrative did require special shots. Thus the Prince Saionji sequence was briefly filled out in Manhattan by a helpful Japanese whose resemblance to the Last of the Genro is so close that few laymen can detect the synthetic...
Some time ago Braggart Matsuda surpassed himself in the august presence of the Genro (Elder Statesman) Prince Saionji, supreme arbiter of Japanese politics and chief adviser to the Throne. With a twist of phrase Mr. Matsuda implied equality between himself and Prince Saionji, caused the Genro to burst out laughing...
Rheumy-eyed Prince Saionji, the tottering Last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen) again had to rack his withered old brains last week. He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes. Some 60 officers of the Imperial fleet, all potent sea dogs with the rank of captain or higher, had just laid reverently but firmly before the Throne a petition dangerous as dynamite. They asked the Son of Heaven to tear up in his infinite wisdom the chief naval treaties to which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with...
...have put corrupt politicians "on probation"?with no prospect of getting the Government out of the hands of the military for the present. Thus last week Premier Saionji had to advise the Emperor to choose another fighting service premier, another admiral or general. Courageously the Last of the Genro advised and the Son of Heaven appointed as Premier about the least quarrelsome sea dog to be found in the Imperial Navy, Admiral Keisuke Okada, retired...