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Strictly off the 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...
...March of Time, out last week, is a series of swift international shots showing Europe drawing an iron ring around Adolf Hitler. While the German Realmleader broods in his Bavarian hideaway, marching men in Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Russia tramp a stern significance into the warning words of statesmen. Besides a visual integration of a taut European situation, this March of Time edition contains: 1) the dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping into a pan, photographed by a camera...
...Senate is an assortment of 96 statesmen and timeservers, wise men and fools, honest men and hypocrites, hardy-hearts and lily-livers, but the collective assortment has one distinguishing characteristic: it goes its own way and makes public life hard for every President. For the greater part of the past two years the Senate has not been true to character. Last week, however, the Senate was again the Senate...
...walls of Paris, the Austrian's special train stopped at a tiny station and on the platform stood tall Premier Flandin with short Foreign Minister Laval beaming welcome. Out hopped Chancellor Schuschnigg with his Foreign Minister, morose Dr. Egon Berger-Waldenegg. Stepping into a sleek Renault all four statesmen sped through Paris, delivered Fascist Schuschnigg safe at the ornate Hotel Crillon while patient police kept the duped and battling Reds and Pinks at the Gare de l'Est as busy as they could...
When Chancellor Schuschnigg reached London this week Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, as he always does, turned the visiting political lion over to Lord & Lady Londonderry for a thoroughgoing banquet. Said Chancellor Schuschnigg next morning: "We have not come to ask for a loan," then asked leery British statesmen about Otto's chances...