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...year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, Last of the Genro. It is this Elder Statesman who most often makes up the imperial mind of the Son of Heaven. Yet this potent old Japanese has been completely missed by U. S. newsreels. Therefore to the tiny fishing village of Okitsu went the newscameras of The March of Time, with the result that shots of Prince Saionji, guarded night & day by 40 soldiers, sitting on his flower-bordered porch reading the newspapers, are the first to appear on any U. S. screen. Also new to most U. S. eyes are old shots...
From Tokyo Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, went to Okitsu to visit Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 92, last of the Genro (elder statesmen). It was the second time the wise old oracle had been consulted this month. Because Count Makino is prudent, peaceable, potent, observers deduced that something good, important would come from the visit. But Count Makino said nothing, reminded newshawks that he never gives interviews on trains...