Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Siamese King Prajadhipok journeyed to the U. S. to have a cataract scraped from his eyes he was sumptuously feted en route by Japanese Emperor Hirohito (TIME, April...
...Tang seated on a 200-year-old Ceremonial Throne. "The Japanese can have this province," cried Tang passionately, "when all the Chinese are dead! . . . Manchukuo is nothing but a big fake. No Chinese yet has voluntarily joined the Japanese. Even Pu Yi [in his childhood the last Emperor of China, today Regent of Manchukuo] would get out of his present job if he could...
...Emperor's Private Ambassador." Overshadowing all else in Chinese minds last week was the appalling question whether Japan would confine herself to Jehol (which she terms a renegade province of her puppet state, Manchukuo) or would hurl her armed might upon Tientsin, Peiping and other key cities of China proper...
...order thus to invade territory which even Japan calls "China" without quibbling would come from the Tokumei Zenken Taishi, the "Emperor's Private Ambassador" in Manchukuo, His Excellency General Nobuyoshi Muto, bland, august and grim. In a most ominous proclamation this week, the Tokumei Zenken Taishi declared: "Should the Chinese undertake operations against our troops [as Chinese had already done] the hostilities may inevitably spread to North China, responsibility for which must be borne by the Chinese authorities...
...loans which the government is making to farmers through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation are going to cause endless trouble when payment falls due, he pointed out. "As for President Roosevelt's plan, I do not think if would do much as a general thing. Fifteen hundred years ago the Emperor Diocletian tried to control labor and prices to relieve a financial crisis. It did no good then, nor have subsequent government attempts to relieve depressions accomplished anything more...