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...Admiral Nicholas Horthy is Regent for this "kingless kingdom." Almost certainly a majority of the multi-national citizens of what is now Hungary look up to the House of Habsburg as the one authority under which they have ever been peaceably united. France and her allies have stood guard sleeplessly since the War, lest "the heir apparent," Prince Otto of Habsburg (still a child and residing in Spain with his mother, the former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary), be "restored," or the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg seize the throne...
...birth (1850) the last Shogun of Japan, Keiki, still held as military regent the power which had slipped from the Mikados some seven centuries before. When Kawamura was three years old, Commodore Perry, U. S. N., sailed into the harbor of Uraga near Yedo (Tokyo) with four ships and roused slumbering Nippon from the so-called "Oriental stagnation" from which China is now clumsily emerging...
...Dalai Lama, his regent and five assistant ministers, who govern Tibet as a theocracy, at the capital, Po-Ta-La, near Lhasa...
...Yoshihito Harunomia. His eldest son Hirohito, the Crown Prince, acts as Regent of Japan. His third son is Nobuhito Takamatsu-no-miya; his youngest is Takahito Sumi-no-miya...
Late despatches announced that Prince Regent Hirohito had appointed Minister of Home Affairs Reijiro Wakatsuki to be Premier pro tempore. As everyone knows, he is the leader of the late Premier's party, the Kensei-Kai, which holds 151 of the 464 seats in the Japanese Diet, 35 seats more than the second largest party, the Seiyuhonto...