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...awakening came at the border where waited Nazi border police. No Nazi is permitted to wear a Nazi uniform outside of Germany, but these pious Nazi youths had worn, while genuflecting before Pope Pius, the livery of Adolf Hitler-thus committing a peculiar sort of Nazi lèse-majesté. At the border the returning youths were set upon, their uniforms roughly seized and ropes tied around their Catholic middles in imitation of St. Francis of Assisi. Scattered in the scuffle were Holy Year medals, rosaries, scapulars and prayer leaflets...
...important, Dr. Minobe has steadfastly opposed the bullying of Japanese politicians by the Army and Navy, even advised the Government that the Cabinet can constitutionally overrule the General Staffs. To revenge themselves, the patriots dug out Dr. Minobe's "organ theory" and charged him with lèse-majesté against the Emperor. They formed the Organ Theory Destruction League and warned Dr. Minobe they would destroy him unless he recanted. This he refused...
Among the first editions of several of William Makespeace Thackeray's works is a copy of "The History of Henry Esmond. Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majest Queen Anne, Written by Himself." This is of particular interest because it is the presentation copy; inscribed in Thackeray's handwriting: "Miss Brote, with W. M. Thackeray's grateful regards. October...
...sensation at Bucharest, last week, brought rash Publicist Filipescu to a filthy cell in the common jail. Awaiting trial for lèse-majesté he stoutly said: "I will not withdraw one word!" His defense, he added, would be that his article is not ''an attack on the Royal Family," as the Crown Prosecutor charges, but instead is a patriotic rebuke to the Rumanian statesman who allowed Her Majesty to go abroad and gallivant...
...reasons popularly given for the fall of the Tanaka government-lèse-majesté and the Manchurian murder of Chang Tso-lin-Tokyo businessmen added a third last week. Baron Tanaka's "Positive Policy" of intervention, vigorous protection of the Japanese colony in Tsinanfu, had brought a boycott of Japanese goods throughout China. By the most rudimentary bookkeeping, balancing the $250,000,000 colony of Tsinanfu against $500,000,000 annual trade with China, Tokyo businessmen realized that the "Positive Policy" must...