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...Buganda only the Kabaka himself may step upon a leopard skin, symbol of Royalty. But last week the Kabaka, clad in robes of blue and gold, led Edward of Wales to a throne chair set up beside his own and resting upon leopard skins...
Appropriately President Chiang was inaugurated, last week, on the day called "Double Ten"?the anniversary of that historic "tenth day of the tenth month" (1911) when Chinese patriots exploded a bomb at Hankow which was the signal for uprising that toppled down the Dragon Throne. Last week "Double Ten" was joyously celebrated at the bomb town of Hankow with a splendid procession of water floats on the mighty River Yangtze. Lantern-light processions and patriotic fetes were held in all the major cities of China, last week ? especially at Shanghai, where citizens were doubly jubilant because Chinese census...
Life came to President Chiang Kai-shek 41 years ago in the minute village of Fenghwa in Chekiang Province. After running away from being apprenticed to a merchant he managed to win a military scholarship and embraced the career of arms under the doomed Dragon Throne. When patriotic bombs began to pop, Chiang Kai-shek (then a stripling of 24) secured command of a revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried...
...Japan paid joyous homage, for the bridegroom is Yasuhito, Chichibu-No-Miya, 26,-Prince and heir-presumptive to the Throne;* and the bride is Setsuko Matsudaira, 19, daughter of popular Tsuneo Matsudaira, who was Japan's Ambassador at Washington until he went home for the Imperial Marriage...
Married. Prince Chichibu, heir presumptive to the throne of Japan; and Setsuko Matsudaira, daughter of Tsuneo Matsudaira; in Tokyo...