Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen years later I turned up in Tokyo, an itinerant free-lance writer, broke and badly in need of a job. By chance I met a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the...
Like a kind of Gallic Colonel Blimp, Paris' conservative Le Figaro (circ. 390,000) takes French imperial prestige with deep seriousness. To awaken the same feeling in other Frenchmen, Le Figaro decided to dramatize what it considered the nation's deplorable indifference to the fact that the French...
Oh, Fighting Comrades! In the plaza before Hirohito's Imperial Palace a group of intransigent rightists gathered to hear frock-coated orators extol the virtues of peace and antiCommunism. In Hibiya Park next day, 5,000 Communists and fellow travelers cheered wildly when 69-year-old Ikuo Oyama proclaimed...
Bao Dai did not look like the man to lead his people to independence and victory over the Communists. When he first assumed his Dragon Throne (1932), he was a playboy and a puppet. The French owned him, along with the 7,000 jazz phonograph records and the 100 dozen...
After a quarter-century of conspiracy and struggle, the great day came at last for China's Red conquerors. In Peiping's crumbling Imperial Palace, under the golden tiles of bygone Mings and Chings, the Communists last week proclaimed their new dynasty. Cried Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...