Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus from the Throne spoke George V last week, prorogued Parliament, plunged his realm into what Laborite William Graham called "one of the most savage elections of modern times...
Japanese may place Mr. Henry Pu Yi on the Throne of Manchuria, if the Japanese succeed in inducing Manchuria to secede from China. But the Japanese Government will have no official part in doings so highhanded. In Tokyo last week a Government spokesman told Japanese reporters that Imperial Henry is "in danger of being kidnapped [from his home in the Japanese concession at Tientsin] by Chinese who are resolved to make him Emperor of Manchuria...
Japan subsidizes spidery-limbed Mr. Pu, provides him with a life of modest splendor in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin, holds him up her sleeve as a possible puppet emperor whom she might place on the throne of any part of China which might secede (see p. 19) and prefer a monarchy to a republic. Last week aggrieved Concubine Shu Fei told what life is like at Mr. Pu's queer court...
Died. Don Jaime of Bourbon (Jaime Juan Carlos Alfonso Felipe de Bourbon-Anjou), 61, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, cousin of deposed King Alfonso XIII; of a heart attack; in Pans...
When revolution broke in Brazil last October, U. S. Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan was on vacation (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.). When three revolutions in one week gripped Guatemala, U. S. Minister Sheldon Whitehouse was on vacation (TIME, Dec. 29, et seq.). When Alfonso XIII was driven from his throne, U. S. Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin was out of town (TIME, April 20 et seq.). Last week U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes sailed for a vacation in the U. S. the day Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Mukden...