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Not for centuries had a reigning Japanese emperor received tidings of the birth of a grandson.
On May 5 following Emperor Meiji ordered that the little FIT PRACTICALLY ALL CARS-prince, son of Crown Prince SPHINX QUALITY——
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Throughout his life he bore the name Hirohito, the family name having been dropped at the time of his succession to the throne.
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STABLISHED theories contended that the Emperor was the state. A storm; swept through Japan's polities, the cabinet was compelled to state its position and to clarify the national polity."
The storm died down when the
Cabinet gave voice to the long es- tablished view that the Emperor was
the state.
Throughout the controversy that
lusted a year, officials of the imperial household rimained siloni.
From boyhood on the Emperor led a busy and rugged life. When 8 the l'oer's years old he entered school.
A diligent student, Hirohito took a special interest in natural history which later led to his deep studies of botany and biology,
In boyhood Hirohito begon keep- ing a
a diary of events he considered Important and continued the practice
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underwent greater changes than, in any other perlod of like dura tion. The world fought a war and Stubbs Rd. depression. Jarton' neighbour China, the oldest empire, became a republic.
| DYER -98 Apell 28, 1938, al Queen
William Juhn Dyer, a son.
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Simultaneously he studied photo raphy and has used many of his pictures to lustrate the diary. It is not known now whether the diary ever will be published.
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"We must ethicate the public that money is a carrier of germs, and they should be careful not to handle too mucit of it."
EGYPT
BRITAIN'S
STAUNCH ALLY
To Japan proper, whose throne F It is published it is believed that it will reveal the impressions the young prince inherited, was that it will reven! the impressions added more than 98,000" square' that Prince Hirohito
had
when mites of territory.
he made his tour abroad. That tour was one of the outstanding
and life ascended the events of his
he was the
EGYPT'S policy towards Arst Crown throne, the period of the reign engaged in such a venture.
LITST
of Japan who Prince of
WTS named "Showa" meaning
On his tour in Europe Prince self can be summarised under "Bright
the Peace." In years of the Shown era the major problems which Japan under the guidance of its scholarly hard working Emperor included:
early rohito WnS espectully desirous that all members of the crew of the battleship Katori receive the best of treatment. He enjoyed talking with the Ballora and watched their Kames,
The 1927 revolution in China with its many phases which di- rectly affected Japan.
Assumption of the obligations in the Kellogg Pact, signed in 1929. Maintaining Japan's Industrial depression after 1929. advance in the face of the world
Explaining to the world the es tablishment of Manchukuo in 1931. Playing a lone hand in diplomacy after leaving the League of Nations in 1933,
Almost constant controversies with Soviet Russia.
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were
Hirohile
1923.
two heads.
the world and her-
First comes the defence of her newly won sovereignly and the con- illy of her friendly alliance with Britain, despite all outside influences, the guarantee of Wag Regent at the time This includes a of the great earthquake in
maintenance of an uninterrupted He called high officials to the palace flow of water from Lake Tsun and to take im the head-waters of the Nile and also and instructed them mediate and effective measures to of the status quo with regard to the ense the sufferings of the people, Surz Cuna). He toured the ruined sections of the city and inquired about the welfare of his subjects.
During the last iliness of the father, the
Riches ECOND, the new Govern- SEC
ment is concentrating on Emperor Taisho, his at the bedside that the whole notion Prince Regent remained so steadily the speedy development of three vital Internal improvements-the feared for his health.
lowering by 50 per cent, of the land tax on our 2,000,000 small cultiva
drinking tors, the supply of pure waler,
and the provision of good medical services to the villagers end farm workers who are the backbone of our national wealth and food sup- ply.
Of the busy but well ordered life of the Emperor, Count Yoshinori Futarn wrote:
"THE Emperor
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досе through a striet routine every day. He up at six in the morning, and, Immediately after his toilet, enteri
the Gyahal-no-mu, Gr Chamber for Prayer, where, with the Em- press, he prays to the Ise Shrine and then to the mausoleum of his
completed, he
par-
After this he attends to
e of one.
Says
MOHAMED MAHMUD PASHA PRIME MINISTER of EGYPT
Ain an interview with J. Wentworth Day} manuZNAMENÍJALAL JUESENBRATOVEITS VINY
is necessary, that these facts should be made plain to Engilsh eyes.
Egypt is primarily an agricultural country and we need a higher status of education on the land.
The Watchword
I
HAVE no intention of giving
votes to women just yet,
moye
we move, at any rate,
I inaugurated a fresh water supply when I was Prime Minister In 1928 and employed an English expert Czecho-Slovakin, for 18 years
advise us on a scheme. This scheme
one of the danger apots of Cen-
is now being put into execution and funds of about £12,000,000 to £15,- 000,000 were granted a week ago, tral Europe, is again seething,
their use to be spread over a period political feelings running high,
of about ten years.
This will mean the disappearance. and presenting a renewed threat
of that most dreadful of all Egyptian to the peace of the Western
diseases, the
the scourge of Bihazla. My next plan is to complete my World. The German minority This same early period of the reign also marked the gradual waning of
original scheme of 1928-the building of 200 hospitals for the rural dis- party, an ever-present and in-e Genro or elder statesmen. Prince
tricts. About 50 were put up during creasingly refractory element in Salonjl, beloved by the entire Im-
my previous term of office, and the perial family, was occasionally called
Egypt Is the western gateway to
remaining
ing 150 will be erected during the political life of the country to the capital but usually in con-
the East with all its riches. She sits
-the n
next two or three yeurs. astelde the Suez Canal, one of the
also to set aside a con- We since
the late Dr. Thomas nection with the formation of a new cabinet.
main vertebrae of world trade. She siderable aren of land which will be
propose Masaryk and Dr. Eduard Benes
Here Africa Is the ancient key to THE Emperor more and more made fal
father, This drew up their historic document
land is the richest in the world, for it given free under a system of State and subsidy to the better his decisions alone as Prince takes of his breukiasi. His majesty produces three crops a year instead tenure
class of agricultural student who which
The guaranteed Salon weakened and uged,
then gues through the morning
graduates with good diploma from Emperor spent a part of each day newspapers. He reads not only So to-day, as always, there are the Agricultural Gollege. autonomy to the Slovaks and In the study of the Constitution, Japanese news but carefully follows greedy foreign eyes which gaze to-
economics bound the Czechs and Slovaks military
and foreign dispatches, and many a time words the Nile. Science, statecraft generally. In addition he has called upon his udvisors for We have tried to marry the best of in a common State, has mani- devoted what might have been his explanations of certain points. He
He the mudernism of the West with the festly grown holder since Herr leisure hours to science. He
pays a great deal of attention to
most honourable traditions of the robust and active by nature from international affairs. He reads not Orlent, and think the marriage will | Hitler's fait accompli in Aus- boyhood, was fond of athletics and only the papers published in Japan. last and Improve.
but those from Korea, Formosa,
Tait of Parliament brings me lo trin. Therefore Herr Konrad was a good equestrian.
the recent events The status of the Emperor during Saghalien, Manchuria, Europe and
the
which caused a It Is much more important to get Henlein's somewhat belligerent the Showa era was the same as that America are to be found on his desk brief but spectacular upheaval in our down the rate of infant mortality,
after the Mei restoration.
The as well,
and focused Government
Western This once stood at the appalling. utterances last week cannot be
affairs of state. pople were as loyal and worshipful
figure
per cent. It is now of 90 eyes upon us for a dramatic week. dismissed
"On Wednesday he attends the ay the
nus under Emperors Meiji and Taisho, cries of
The dismissal of the Government' about 82 per cent. in the towns and Privy Council. On other days he Despite the conversion of Japan gives audiences to foreign political fanatic. His words too
of Nalus Pasha by his Majesty the less in the country districts. A pure into an industrial nation of the first sndors and la Japanese officials, brusque to European eyes,
ambas-
King may have seemed alittic water supply and good medical faci- of rank, all the traditions that had sur- both civil and military,
Hitler will reduce it even more. nearly echo the speeches
who are all rounded
the dynnalies
Egypt, let me say in conclusion, Herr Hitler prior Lo the
going abroad or who have just re- maintained.
must not turned home. At noon he takes his Royal Decision
be judged harshly by Western standards, We are coup d'etat in Austria, and the
Hirohito kept face, with the ad- midday meal, following which there
ACTUALLY, the voice of the Oriental country emerging gradually fact that Herr Henlein's utter-vance and kept faith with the past. are more state affairs to attend to.
410 woll people
05 the Lut surely from mists of the The only ripple on the waters of This is varied by more audiences, tradition that appeared in the early by reading and by exercise. The authority of the King called for a Pharonie past. But if we
of the state of affairs gradually rectification part of the reign at least, was in are times when he takes Junch or
1935 when Dr. Tatsukichi Minobe, dinner with some of the higher which then existed..
Watchword is "Evolution" and member of the Imperial Academy, officials or members of the diplomatic But before proceeding to force a encouragement, hint inspiration wrote book on the Constitution. corps. At such times he pays grent crisis the King, with a democratic not Revolution."
Ever since my Oxford days I have Dr. Minobe asserted that the Emi- attention to what they have to say spirit rare in Oriental history, an-
on the affairs of which they are in nounced that he would abide by the learned to respect the English claar- charge.
decision of a council of his most ex- France is nervous, as well she *****
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made many great friend-" have which England Judges, ships in The Emperor is
Derienced ex-Ministers, widely might be. Bound by treaty likely find Poland a willing ally, but he takes an
read, especial interest
and others, including the endured. lawyers, for in Poland there is another in books dealing with geography and late Presidents of the Senate and of
"When I entered politics my idea to preserve Czecho-Slovakia's
German.
He has always taken a
was that Egypt should achieve the the Chamber of Deputies. minority history. status quo, France senses in the important
keen interest in zoology and botony These men of all parties were to independence which she now has, which is straining to find its and often has specialists in those be asked to decide on the constitu- and that she should become the ally Austrian anschluss preliminary freedom,
lines come to answer
questions tional questions which had arisen of England.
Now toward German absorp-
which he
that this ideal hos between Nabos Pasta and the King. propounds. The possible results of a scri- "His majesty has fixed views re- The King ugrced to accept their deel realised and I am Prime Minister of tion of at least part of Czecho-
While garding exercise.
this ous political upheaval in Czecho-Prince he once told Count Making
Crown sion, but Naling Pushn said "No."
country, I can only bay, with all So he had to go.
my heart, that the Anglo-Egypilan Slovakia. It is obvious that
Slovakia
I do not wish to pursue any ven- Alliance will be sufe in my keeping, arc boundless and that he considered golf and tennis Germany could never achieve n
and that Anglo-Egyptian friendship Observers dismaying.
find superior to other sports. The Em- detta against my predecessor in office,
peror looks upon athletles not only but in the light of recent happenings will, I trust, be enhanced during bloodluss putsch in Czecho-comfort in the promise of oft-as healthful but as affording spiritual and of possible misunderstanding it term of office. Slovakia as she did in Austria. postponed elections in the Czech training as well. Besides golf and tennis, the Emperor is also fond of would need to be a provinces being held in the near riding, sju-ing and swimming. coup de force, and any such future, which, it is felt, will be
S soon as the day's exercise sit other day I listened to a talk on QUICK RESULTS violation of the integrity of sufficient to appease the political"
hunger of the Sudeten Deutsche bath, and after that is again at affairs discussing dogs, and concluded, "But do we want our dogs to be? That is
over his majesty takes his the wireless. The speaker was
But friendliness? How felendly Czecho-Slovakin would demand Party. Reactions to the results of state until six o'clock. As a
wonderful pedigree that France-and probably
point on which all dog-lovers feel of these elections, however, are general rule the Emperor takes are all these
animals
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for granted. Yet, among both adulta possible consequences.demonstrated to ignore, and it classic. In addition, every Monday It is character I am considering, and children are not those best worth Additional factors of importance is fairly certain that the next morning it speciallat comes to sponk "More Intelligent and more friendly?" knowing who "take a bit of kitowing"
faw weeks will be fraught with
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