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...Canadian Parliament assembled last week at Ottawa, on Capitol Hill, amid highly extraordinary circumstances arising out of the recent "freak election" (TIME, Nov. 9), which gave the two major parties (Conservative and Liberal) an almost equal number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons...
Throngs of Japanese patriots surged excitedly about the great gates of the Imperial Akasaka Palace at Tokyo. Slowly the gates expanded, and amid much rat-tat-ting of drums the Imperial Mounted Guard prepared to ride forth, escorting the popular Prince Hirohito of Japan...
...Amid shouts of "Banzai!" "Hail, Illustrious One!" "Greetings!" the Prince Regent proceeded unruffled on his way. Later Ambassador Silva explained that he thought the first policeman had said "Come, please" instead of "Comes Prince." Since the policeman's gesture made his intent clear, this explanation was considered very lame.* The Japanese Government was rumored to have entered an official protest against the "unwarranted tempestuousness" of the Ambassador...
...missionary movement became a storm centre when Dr. R. E. Diffendorfer, fatherly secretary of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions, beamed down from the platform and addressed someone as "my boy." Amid angry growls and mutterings from the audience, a loud voice vociferated, as reported in public prints: "Youth has been 'my-boyed' by a lot of old dunderheads until it's fed up. That's why this conference is here." Y. T. Wu, a Chinese delegate, charged that the mission movement is a growth forced on China at the point of the sword...
...poet himself has been lying since 1895 amid unpretentious surroundings in a Chicago cemetery, but within the fortnight it was announced that the Episcopal church of Kenilworth, 111. (village on Lake Michigan, 16 mi. north of Chicago, where lived William C. Englard Jr., a grandson of Eugene Field), is to have a memorial window and a "poet's corner"; that the poet's body will be moved there, together with personal mementos saved by his widow in the hope that their home would be preserved as a memorial...