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Japanese mourned universally last week the death of Field Marshal Viscount Kageakira Kawamura, 76, whose life exactly spanned the modern Imperial Era of Japan...
During the Chino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars (1894-95 and 1904-5) Kawamura rose through numerous preferments, until at the great victory of Mukden (1905) he was commander-in-chief of the Yalu Army. Thereafter he was made a Viscount, received the Order of the Golden Kite (First Class), and settled down upon the Supreme Military Council of a World Power which had been almost unknown to the Occident at his birth...
That title is only the last on an imposing list: Bencher of the Middle Temple (1904); Member of Parliament from Reading (1904-13); Knight (1910); Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21); Baron (1914); President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. (1915); Viscount Reading (1916); Special Envoy to the U. S. (1917); Viscount Erleigh and Earl of Reading (1917); High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. (1918); Viceroy and Governor General of India (1921-26) (TIME, April...
...Britannica, that compendium's directors last week-largely at the instance of Americans in their number-appointed James Louis Garvin, the man designated by the late Lord Northcliffe as "greatest living journalist." Since 1908, Journalist Garvin had edited the London Observer (Sunday), being retained by the present owner (Viscount Astor) after the death of Lord Northcliffe, the founder...
...Viceroy. As the son and heir of the aged Viscount Halifax (87-year-old Groom of the Bedchamber to Edward of Wales), Mr. E. F. L. Wood has need of his interim title "Lord Irwin" only during his viceroyship** or until his father dies. His choice as Viceroy is regarded as felicitous in the extreme, because his grandfather, the first Viscount Halifax, was raised to that estate for his success (as "Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India") in completely reorganizing the government of India after it was taken over from the old East India Co. Since Sir Charles...