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There were many birthdays last week. The Japanese Empire, 660 years older than Christianity, celebrated its 2,600th anniversary with plans for its aggrandizement (see p. 38). The U. S. Marines, twitching at their triggers as always, were 165 years old. King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy was 69 and disappointed at the news from Greece (see p. 24). President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala was 62 and successful (see p. 37). In Moscow, Russia celebrated the 23rd anniversary of its Revolution with a military demonstration and professions of peace, while in Washington tiny Ambassador Constantine Alexandrovich Oumansky served caviar...
Last week Japanese reverently celebrated the 2,600th anniversary of the assumption of divine rule by Hirohito's ancestor Jimmu, first of Japan's unbroken (but, thanks to some perfectly divine concubines, occasionally knotted) string of 124 emperors. To Occidentals, the celebration looked like so much hocuspocus. This scoffing attitude was symptomatic of the blind misunderstanding of Japan's ways which last week threatened-in the opinion of some sober commentators, more immediately than Europe's troubles-to get the U. S. into...
Outbidding Italy, England and Finland at the 1936 meeting of the International Olympic Committee, the Japanese succeeded in having the Olympic Games of 1940 allocated to Tokyo to celebrate the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Empire. Last week, after the Japanese Government had repeatedly pooh-poohed recurrent rumors that it might abandon the Games because of the "incident" in China and had already voted 15,000,000 yen ($5,000,000) for the construction of an Olympic Village, the Minister of Public Welfare suddenly announced that the Government had withdrawn its support of the 1940 Olympics, asked...
Other fairs scheduled for the next three years include the British Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, Scotland (1938); the Tokyo International Exposition to mark the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire (1940); the San Francisco Bay Exposition to celebrate the new bridge from San Francisco to Oakland opened last autumn (February 1939). Ruled out by the International Bureau of Expositions as a fair-of-the-year, the San Francisco Bay Exposition will be a local fair...
...York Yankees: a game against the St. Louis Browns, 11-7, in which George Herman ("Babe") Ruth hit his 35th home-run of the season, the 600th of his big-league career, and was later ejected from the game for arguing with the umpire...