Word: moat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Headquarters. During the Chinese-Japanese War of 1894-95 and during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, the Japanese Cabinet at Tokyo was virtually superseded and shoved out of control by setting up so-called Imperial Headquarters. Last week Imperial Headquarters was again set up within the hallowed, moat-encircled palace of Emperor Hirohito. According to an official communique, the War Minister and Navy Minister will occasionally invite the Premier to sit in with them and will keep the rest of the Cabinet posted as to what decisions are made by the potent militarists and revered elders of Imperial...
...Tokyo last week, Cabinet Ministers scuttled in & out of Emperor Hirohito's moat-encircled palace. The assent of the Son of Heaven was required to dozens of decisions, most important of all to the drastic decision of the military high command to ship Japan's entire regular army -some 260,000 men-across the sea to China...
...morning of November 4th. He finds that his prediction has come true, and waking up to a world which seems outwardly as substantial as it has ever been, he is delighted to turn his thoughts into other and more refreshing channels than the deep dark and turbulent moat of politics...
...revenge on the enemy, clan MacLaggan. With Donat the man and Donat the ghost both of an amorous turn, poor Jean has a tough time telling which is the real Glourie. Pallette, the grocery magnate, setting his stronghold, complete with ghost, in a tropical grove with gondolas in the moat, will send you back for a look at your "Robber Barons" to see how old J. P. used to buy up Italy at a gulp. The ticker-tape welcome of the ghost to Broadway almost persuaded us that Roosevelt is a dream, and Charlie Mitchell reigns in his stead...
...these circumstances somebody had to come out from behind the moat and do or say something last week before the mystery could in any way lift. Out came not-particularly-well-known General Kohei Kashii and roared that he was the divinely appointed new Military Governor of the Japanese capital. Normally the august name of the Son of Heaven is considered too sacred to be mentioned or invoked, but last week's emergency was clearly supreme and General Kashii rasped: "Orders to establish an emergency guard over conditions in Tokyo have been issued to the First Division...