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Japan under Emperor Hirohito has much in common with England under Queen Victoria. Last week every Japanese read with pride a state-of-the-nation speech delivered to the 73rd session of the Imperial Parliament by Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. It might have been Lord Palmerston speaking, it might have been years ago, but it was actually Mr. Hirota voicing the aspirations of Japan in terms as serene as those used by Queen Victoria's ministers to express their gratification at the progress of Imperialism...
...19th Century it turned up in the collection of one J. Thos. Stanley, Palmerston House, Turnbridge-by-Sheffield. A generation later it was hanging on the Bavarian walls of Otto Wesendonck, husband of Richard Wagner's greatest love, Matilde Wesendonck...
...frenzied drama. Russell and Palmerston plotting behind Minister Adams's back; Minister Adams sensing it, yet soothing the jangled feelings of Secretary of State Seward with optimistic dispatches. Without Minister Adam's consummate statecraft the United States of America might never have emerged from the Civil strife. There could have been war with England as well as with the rebellious South. Once, when Earl Russell assured Adams that there would be no intervention, that England's policy would remain unchanged, Adams was unaware that a few hours previously Russell had proposed intervention to a cabinet which rejected his proposal. Henry...
...father; her beloved governess, the Baroness Lehzen; the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William; Lord Melbourne, whose wife had been Caroline Lamb, Byron's widely-publicized mistress; King Leopold of Belgium, who thought he could control England through his influence with Victoria and the Prince Consort; Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Tennyson, George...
...Lord President of the Council Ramsay MacDonald; by Mrs. Edith Katherine MacDonald; in London. Grounds: misconduct. Divorced. Charles Henry Huberich, 59, Toledo-born scholar of international law; by Nina Mdivani Huberich, sister of the celebrated Georgian "Princes" David, the late Serge and Alexis Mdivani; in The Hague. Died. Harry Palmerston Williams, 46, son of Louisiana's late Lumber Tycoon Frank B. Williams, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, speed-plane builder associated with the late pilot "Jimmy" Wedell (Wedell-Williams); in an airplane crash; at Baton Rouge, La. Died. Commander Elmer F. Stone, U. S. N., 49, co-pilot...