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...record, eight Japanese statesmen out of ten will readily admit to not believing the official legend that their Emperor is descended from the Sun Goddess. "We regard our Emperor with the respect Catholics feel for their Pope," they often say in private. Yet last week in the Japanese Parliament, sturdy old Premier Admiral Okada was put sternly on the record. Did he or did he not, demanded Baron Kiyozumi Inouye, hold with Japan's eminent Constitutional authority Dr. Tatsuki Minobe who has just created a nation-wide furor by alluding to the Son-of-Heaven as "an organ...
...Were dismayed amid their efforts to get through first reading the longest measure ever submitted to Parliament-the India Bill giving a more liberal status to the Empire's vast subcontinent (TIME, Dec. 3)-by news that at Bombay last week the turbaned and bejeweled Maharajas of India's Chamber of Princes adopted a resolution as follows: "This meeting desires to emphasize that in many respects the bill and the instrument of accession depart from agreements arrived at during the meetings of representatives of the Indian States with members of His Majesty's Government. It regrets...
...Leader of the London County Council is often loosely called "The Prime Minister of London" and the Council is often called still more loosely "The Parliament of London.'' One hundred and twenty-four councilors are elected to the Council by London householders every three years. The No. 1 councilman of the majority party becomes officially Leader or "Prime Minister." He has an unofficial ''Cabinet" consisting of the eight chairmen of the Council's principal committees. In session the Council (see cut) greatly resembles the House of Commons. Its chairman or "Speaker" is proposed...
Sniffed Toronto's loyalist Mail and Empire: ''There is more than a suspicion that Toronto society doesn't care a particle whether there is a Speaker's tea or a Lieutenant Governor's dinner or any other social function up around the Parliament Buildings. The folks who come from 'the back concessions' and those who hope that some day they may come are much more likely to be disappointed than anybody in Toronto. They want to be noticed. Their friends back home expect them to be noticed. Sometimes the friends back home...
Married. Diane Chamberlain. 23, secretary and only daughter of Sir Austen Chamberlain; and Arthur Terence Maxwell, partner in Glyn, Mills & Co, London bankers; in St. Stephen's Chapel beneath the Houses of Parliament in London...