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Heaven's Cousin. In Tokyo the Son of Heaven, bespectacled Emperor Hirohito, was advised by Prince Saionji, the Last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen," to bring the Army under stricter Imperial control last week and did so, appointing as Chief of Staff his right royal cousin, fierce-mustached Field Marshal Prince Kotohito Kanin...
...over the Nanking Government, these leaders might be slain by soldiers still loyal to General Chiang who would set himself up again as President. Meanwhile Nanking weltered in a series of patriotic riots by Chinese "students" who have not studied for months, preferring to hurl bricks and assault Chinese statesmen in protest against their "weak policy...
...sooner was the inauguration over, the captains and the troops departed, than Premier Manuel Azana drove to the Palace and insisted on handing in his resignation. Worried President Alcala Zamora called a meeting of statesmen, asked Premier Azana to form another government, which he grudgingly agreed...
Patiently the statesmen explained that this was no time for a war with China. Japan's business and finances were in parlous state. Japan's second-biggest indus-try is clothing China and providing her with manufactured articles. Chinese troops cannot fight a modern army, but China has one terrible weapon, the boycott. An effective boycott of Japanese goods would be catastrophe. This reasoning impressed elderly Japanese generals, but not the younger officers. They waited for a 301st Incident. They got it with the execution of Captain Shintaro Nakamura by Manchurian troops (TIME, Sept. 28). Start officers kicked over...
There will be many Christmas messages this year expressed by word of mouth, in letters, through the papers and editorials. Some will be cheery, some calmly happy, some bitter, but all tempered by a slow thoughtfulness. Gold standards have been dropped, statesmen have grown suddenly old, banks have failed, nations have rotted on the vine of empire. Such are the things which make men show and thoughtful. Economists are bewildered by economics, reason has not led the world to reason, depression seems a long lane down which there is no corner. And on this lane the Vagabond must leave...