Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Mishima had openly expressed his despair over the materialistic decadence that he saw in the Westernization of his country. Largely at fault, he felt, was the U.S.-imposed constitution, which "forever renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation." Mishima wanted the prewar constitution restored so that the Emperor would once again be "sacred and inviolable" and so that Japan could regain the honor it had lost in its defeat. To that end, he created his private army, which numbered fewer than 100 young men, trained regularly, and wore expensive uniforms designed by Mishima himself. Most Japanese considered...
...real dream was to die a hero's death for Japan. He was born Kimi-take Hiraoka, son of an aristocratic samurai family, and was imbued with a warrior code that apotheosized complete control over mind and body and loyalty to the Emperor. At 18, he felt an almost erotic fascination with the death that, he was certain, awaited him when he would be drafted. But his wish to die for the Emperor was thwarted by a weak body and a frail constitution...
There were six reigning monarchs: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the Shah of Iran, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, King Baudouin of Belgium, Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg. Charles, Prince of Wales, was seated among other young royalty, including Norway's Crown Prince Harald and Sweden's Crown Prince Carl Gustav. From what was once French Africa came leaders and statesmen from 17 now independent nations, including Senegal's Léopold Sedar Senghor and the Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who revered De Gaulle...
Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie was a monarch of only 43 when his proud East African kingdom suffered one of the great outrages of the 20th century. While the League of Nations sat mute in Geneva in 1936, Italian troops overran the land and Benito Mussolini appeared on a Rome balcony to boast: "At last Italy has its empire...
...that any Augustus can create a Vergil; any man with sufficient money, he thought, can underwrite a poet to sing his praises. Napoleon also proved that his own thesis is wrong, for what poet created an epic about the Corsican dictator? What Bonaparte did not realize is that an emperor who would create a Vergil must have not only the wealth, but also the stature, of an Augustus. Great poetry can only be written about great topics, topics which are common and central to the experience of all mankind. Any lesser theme is doomed by its nature to failure...