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Once again Premier Saito's Cabinet seemed about to collapse under him. His veteran Finance Minister, Viscount Korekiyo Takahashi, Hideo's Cabinet boss, had a resignation ready in his top drawer. Premier Saito told newshawks: "It's one damned thing after another...
Wrinkled 85-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), had the same two eminent callers again & again last fortnight. They were harassed Premier Viscount Makoto Saito and his Minister of War, General Senjuro Hayashi. Discord, scandal and sickness have jolted five men out of Saito's Cabinet. Hayashi wanted to be the sixth. Cause was his younger brother Yukichi who had been adopted as a child by the family of Shirakami and taken that name. The General felt that he was still responsible for his brother's acts, whatever his name, and Yukichi...
Thumbing a dozen photographs mailed to him by a Tokyo lawyer, wife-hunting, dusky Lij Araya, prince of Ethiopia, found very charming a picture of Miss Masako Kuroda, daughter of Viscount Hiroyuki Kuroda of Japan. There was considerable correspondence between Addis Ababa and Tokyo, and finally a match was arranged, hailed with glee by both the Abyssinian and Japanese Press...
Married. Richard Southwell Windham Robert Wyndham-Quin. Viscount Adare, 40, eldest son of the Fifth Earl of Dunraven; and Nancy Yuille, Manhattan socialite; in Palm Beach...
Groom of the Bedchamber to sprightly Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales was Viscount Halifax who lay dead last week at 95. In Hickleton Hall with many another mourner for the funeral was his son and successor who as Lord Irwin was recently Viceroy of India. Friends and relatives of the dead peer took no particular notice when a group of resolute men marched into the Hall, dragged packing cases containing family heirlooms out to the lawn, broke them open, took their pick and went their way. After someone detected this amazing theft, the funeral was held amid...