Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today Japan is politically bankrupt. That does not mean that she is financially bankrupt, nor that her Throne is tottering. It means merely that the Army & Navy, making the most of their Constitutional irresponsibility to the Premier and responsibility only to the Throne, have reduced step by step during the past twelvemonth the prestige of both of Japan's great political parties, her Seiyukai and her Minseito...
...Kalat differs from the other states of the Indian Empire," said Lord Willingdon from his Throne, "in that it is a confederacy of nomad tribes, closely akin to the khanates of Central Asia and the emirates of Arabia." This being so, His Excellency voiced special pleasure in greeting on behalf of George V and installing on the Kalat Throne a tall, white-robed nomad who advanced majestically and was hailed by the Viceroy with his full name and rank, "Mir Azam Jang Khan, Wali of Kalat and Khan of the Brahui Confederacy...
...book he has written & illustrated. Forty years ago he did a book on Hell. Now he has revisited Hell, found and portrayed it as a high-class modern community, completely taken over by Capitalist Exploiters, with the Old Boy Himself relegated to the background by powers-behind-the-throne...
Advancing to within twelve paces of the Throne, Sir Evelyn Howell, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, loudly asked viceregal assent to proceed with creation of the new Governor's Province and with the installation as Governor of Lieut. Col. Sir Ralph Edwin Hotchkin Griffith, recently the British Resident of Waziristan* but formerly a popular British officer in Peshawar...
...third day in Peshawar Viscount Willingdon opened the new North-West Frontier Legislative Council, an ostensibly parliamentary body with little real power. From his golden throne he read a speech on behalf of George V, King & Emperor. Said His Majesty, through His Excellency's lips, "On peace and good government in the North-West Frontier Province depends in great measure the security of India. I look with confidence to the people of the province so to order their affairs that the momentous change which my Viceroy is today inaugurating will conduce to the benefit of their province and India...