Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At length the earthly remains of Alexandra were placed beside those of King Edward, in the crypt of the Chapel. There the imperial pair will await the completion of a great sarcophagus now being built for them.
Observers recalled that all male members of the former Imperial House of Osman have been expelled from Turkey, including even Prince Abdul Medjid, whom the Kemalists suffered to act as Caliph from 1922 to 1924. At present over 250 members of this once omnipotent family are said to be living...
Mr. Macdonald: Why were the Locarno Treaties consummated without consulting the Dominions? . . . I cannot conceive of so insular a system of conducting the imperial foreign policy as other than calamitous."
In Tokyo, a professor of the Imperial University explained 16 skeletons beneath the foundation of an old castle tower as probable relics of a "human pillar," such as the ancient Japanese would bury at bridgeheads or embankments to propitiate the super-god of rivers during construction projects.
"And it has been hard enough to change the form of government to that of a republic in the first place. Even now the average Chinese government official works as though he served an Emperor. The imperial tradition is so strong in China that it will take many years to...