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Moreover the assassins "claimed that statesmen close to the Throne had, ever since the London Naval Treaty was signed, been interfering with the Imperial prerogative." This was a poke at Prince Saionji, who is still His Majesty's chief adviser despite nebulous promises by the new Cabinet to make the Emperor and his prerogatives utterly supreme. Finally the assassins, like the new Cabinet, sought "to assure clarification of the national policy, expansion of national defense armaments and stabilization of the peoples-in a word, to bring about the so-called Showa Restoration" under which the Japanese Empire...
Alan Patrick Herbert, famed Punch humorist and M. P., popped up in the House of Commons to poke fun at recent Fascist demonstrations in London. Said he: "Between black shirts and red shirts I am one of those who cry, 'A plague on both your blouses.' They name themselves after their lingerie, whether black shirts, blue braces, pink pants or dirty drawers...
...chain as a Paramount subsidiary. Now 48, reserved, deliberate, hardworking, he lives on Chicago's North Shore, is active in Jewish affairs, takes a great interest in the Chicago Riding Club and the Arlington (Ill.) race track, both of which he helped found. Taking a sly poke at Wall Street's various unsuccessful attempts to run a Hollywood enterprise, Barney Balaban declared last week: "It is a source of confidence to find the board of directors giving due recognition to the necessity of having experienced men in the industry and in important positions in the management...
...when his impudent antics in Parliament dismayed William Ewart Gladstone, he jibed so often at counsel and witnesses that he soon won the traditional accolade of eccentricity by being cartooned (in cap & bells) by Max Beerbohm. Never at a public school or university, he lost no chance to poke fun at sporting Britain, thought football "muddy," cricket a "bore," maintained that marbles was his game...
...Party to the Society of Jesus, its supremacy in the U.S.S.R. to that of the Pope in his temporal glory. They quote Stalin: "We may say that the dictatorship of the proletariat is substantially the dictatorship of the Party, as the force which effectively guides the proletariat." The Webbs poke mild fun at the Bolshevik fondness for the word "dictatorship,'' think it a misnomer for the Party's "inspiration, evocation and formulation of a General Will'' among Russia's millions. The Party is outside the constitution; it broods over the body politic like...