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...What do you mean?" gravely replied Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, President of the Japanese House of Peers. President of the Japanese Red Cross, scion of ancestors who ruled Japan as Shoguns or Tycoons while the power of the Imperial House was in abeyance (1603-1868). "What are breadlines?" "He doesn't know what breadlines are!" exclaimed the questioner with a wink for his fellows. "Why sure, you know Prince, breadlines are a lot of poor guys standing in line to get a handout-breadlines, see?" "We have had nothing like a breadline in Japan that I have ever heard...
Among the 63 nations represented was a large delegation from Japan whose interest was heightened by the appearance and the speech of rotund Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, non-Rotarian president of the Japanese house of Peers...
Tokugawa. To accept the Perry relics in behalf of Japan, last week, there came to the U. S. Embassy the great Prince Iyesato Tokugawa. Since 1903 he has been President of the House of Peers, but that is relatively unimportant. The unique distinction of Prince Tokugawa is that he is the heir of the last dynasty of Japanese Shoguns who ruled from 1603 until the last Shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, voluntarily renounced his powers in 1867, and permitted restoration of the authority of the Japanese Imperial Dynasty...
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