Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world (59,000,000 natives). Great Powers may not care a great deal what happens to or in the Kingdom of The Netherlands but the destiny of the white race may prove to be that of the Netherlands Empire. If the small yellow subjects of Japanese Emperor Hirohito succeed in filching away from Queen Wilhelmina's big white subjects the No. 3 colonial empire of the world, what about France's No. 2 colonial empire and Britain's No. 1? To Dutchmen, firmly convinced that they are sane, it was the supreme irony last week that Japan...
...Divine Emperor (TIME, March 18 et seq.). Last week they were able to scream until Tokyo's welkin rang that the Cabinet had failed to prevent the introduction into Japan of the August issue of Vanity Fair in which appeared a cartoon of His Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, the Son of Heaven...
Meanwhile the Japanese Cabinet, just before the Vanity Fair incident burst, tried last week to settle the recent months of quarrel about Emperor Hirohito's exact status by a solemn and fervent pronouncement. Excerpt...
Cabinet's Birthday. Meanwhile in Japan the exact and hotly disputed nature of the Emperor Hirohito's godhood remained a major issue which still threatened to upset the Government of bustling old Admiral Keisuke Okada. Somewhat to his enemies' amazement the present stop-gap Cabinet rounded out a full year in office last week, celebrated with a champagne lunch...
...Japanese idiom so elaborate and metaphysical that U. S. correspondents could only translate it "He's the top!" With the Cabinet floundering among Japanese terms so high flown that many of them are rarely heard and but partially understood by an average subject of Emperor Hirohito, His Majesty seemed certain to emerge with a newly defined status so breathtaking that it could be fully grasped only by a pure fanatic...