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...understand what the fight was about one must remember that all Japanese are supposed really and truly to believe that their Emperor is the "Son of Heaven," the lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess and himself genuinely divine. Whether they believe it or not, Japanese statesmen have to act as though they believed that the Emperor is all-wise, can no more do wrong than can Jehovah. This being so, Japanese who oppose the London Naval Treaty became absolutely boiling mad last week when Baron Shidehara in defending the Treaty said: "Well, do you suppose the Emperor would have signed...
...China's Invisible Ruling House," Mr. T. A. Soong; to the younger sister of "China's Strongest War Lord," Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria. Other Soongs are the widow 'of Sainted Sun Yatsen, the wife of China's president, the wife of the last lineal descendant of Confucius, and Finance Minister T. V. Soong, "China's Mellon...
Artists & Models. This summer-blooming perennial of Producers Lee & Jake Shubert is called this year the "Paris-Riviera Edition of 1930." It is a vague lineal descendant of an English musical comedy called Dear Love to which has been added a repertoire of singers, dancers and acrobats, much to the bewilderment of the spectators...
Down on all fours in London last week went Japan's chief delegate to the Naval Conference, Mr. Reijiro Wakatsuki (pronounced "Wakatsky"). With a little brush he deftly painted on a long white scroll his report to the Son of Heaven, the Sublime Emperor Hirohito of Japan, 124th lineal descendant of Sun Goddess Amaterasu...
Mark Twain was of course the first good-humoured Vagabond, and so his lineal descendent may perhaps be pardoned for being a bit partial to him. Therefore he is quite sorry for anyone who has missed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn from his cradle side, and almost as regretful over a lost soul who has failed to try "Life on the Mississippi" or "A Tramp Abroad" for his later and more travelsome years. Perhaps these unfortunates may be redeemed from the pulpit of Sever 11. But it is more likely that Professor Murdock will concern himself with the later years...