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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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ESTABLISHED theories contended
that the Emperor was the_state. A storm swept through. Japan's politics, the cabinet was compelled to state its position and to clarity the "national pollly."
The storm died down when the
cabinet gave voice to the long es tabilahed view that the Emperor was
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Throughout the controversy that lasted a year, officials of the imperial household remained silent.
From boyhood on the Emperor led When # a busy and rugged life.
Peer's years old he entered school.
Adulgent student, Hirohilo took a special interest in natural history which later led to his deep studies of botany and biology, s
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and Emperor the world probably underwent greater changes than in any other period of like dura- tion. The world fought a war and depression. Jayian's neighbour China, the oldest empire, became a republic.
Simultaneously he studled photo- graphy and has used many of his pictures to illustrate the diary. It is not known now whether the diary
ever will be published.
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To Japan proper, whose throne it is published it is believed that It will reveal the impressions the young prince inherited, was that it will reveal the impressions added more than 98,000 square that Prince Hirohito had when miles of territory
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WHEN Hirohits ascended the events of his life and he was the throne, the period of the reign first Crown Prince of Japan who TA umed "Show meaning, engaged in such a venture." On his tour in Енгорс
Prince solf can be summarised under "Bright Peace." In the early Irohito WHE especially destrous two heads. years of the Showa era the major that all members of the crew of the
First comes the defence of her problems which Japan under the battleship Katori receive the best of guidance of ita scholarly hard- treatment. He enjoyed talking with
the sailors and watched working Emperor included:
their
Hirohila was Regent at the time
The 1927 revolution in China gomes. with its many phases which di- rectly affected Japan.
Assumption of the obligations in the Kellogg Pact, signed in 1929.
Maintaining Japan's Industrial advance in the face of the world depression after 1029.
to
of the great earthquake In 1923, He called high officials to the paince take im- and instructed them mediate and effective measures to ense the sufferings of the people, the ruined sections of the city and inquired about the welfare
He toured
of his subjects.
Says
MOHAMED MAHMUD PASHA PRIME MINISTER of EGYPT (In an interview with J. Wentworth Day)
newly won sovereignty and the con- tinulty of her friendly alllance with Britain, despite all outside influences. This includes a guarantee of the of an unisterrupted aintenance flow of water from Lake Tsang and is the head-waters of the Nile and also of the status quo with regard to the Suez Canal,
Riches ECOND, the new Govern During the last illness of the Sment is concentrating on Explaining to the world the es tablishment of Manchukuo in 1931. Emperor Taisho, his father,
vital internal improvements-the Playing a lone hand in diplomacy Prince Regent remained so steadily the speedy development of three after leaving the League of Nations at the bedside that the whole nation lowering by 50 per cent, of the land
in 1933.
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FINAAL VERFLINT KITA E DETIT SEASONSTARSKI SALAAM accessary that these facts should be made plain to English eyes.
I inaugurated a fresh water supply when I was Prime Minister in 1028 and employed an English expert to advise us on a scheme. This scheme
is now being put into execution and funds of about £12,000,000 to £15,- 000,000 were granted a week ago, their use to be spread over a period of about ten years.
This will mean the disappearance of that dreadful of all Egyption
most discases, the scourge of Bilbazių,
two
Czecho-Slovakia, for 18 years
Of the busy but well ordered Hfe tax on our 2,000,000 small cultiva- Almost constant controversies with of the Emperor, Count Yoshinori tors, the supply of pure drinking water, and the provision of good Futara wrote: one of the danger spots of Cen-Soviet Russia.
My next plan is to complete my medical services to the villagers and This same early period of the reign tral Europe, is again seething, also marked: the gradual waning of
farm workers who are the backbone original scheme of 1928--the bullding
of 200 hospitals for the rural dis ACHIE
strict routine every day. Ho political feelings running high, the Genro or elder, statesmen. Prince E Emperor goes through of our national wealth and food sup- irlets. About 50 were put up during
Salonil, beloved by the entire Im Is up at six in the morning, and,
my previous term of office, and the and presenting a renewed threat perial family, was occasionally called immediately after his tollet, enters the East with all its riches. She sits
Egypt is the western gateway to remaining 180 will be erected during
the next
or throe
hree years, the peace
Chamber to
of the Western to the capital but usually in con-
Gyohal-no-ma, or
astride the Suez Canal, one of the nection with the formation of a new for Prayer, where, with_the Em-
We propose also to set aside a con- World. The German minority cabinet.
main vertebrae of world trade. She siderable area of land which will be to the Ise Shrine is the ancient key to Afrles. Her given free under press, he prays
system of State and then to the mausoleum of his party, an ever-present and in-
land is the richest in the world, for it tenure and subsidy to the better THE Emperor more and more made father. This completed, he par produces three crops a year instead
student who of agricultural class creasingly refractory element in his decisions
as Prince takes of his breakfast. His majesty alone
of one.
graduates with a good diploma from The then goes through Saionji weakened and aged.
as always, there are the Agricultural College. So to-day, He reads not only
Egypt is primarily on agricultural since the late Dr. Thomas in the study of the Constitution, Japanese news but carefully follows greedy foreign eyes which goze to-
country and we need a higher status and foreign dispatches, and many a time wards the Nile. Masaryk and Dr. Eduard Benes
military
In addition he has called upon his advisors for We have tried to marry the best of of education on the land. drew up their historic document devoted what might have been his explanations of certain points. Ile the modernism of the West with the
statecraft en
The Watchword leisure hours to science. He was pays a great deal of attention mest honourable traditions of the in 1918 which guaranteed robust and active by nature from International affairs. He reads not
Orient, and think the marriage will autonomy to the Slovaks and boyhood, was ford of athletics and only the papers published in Japan, last and improve.
but those from Korea, Formosa, a good equestrian,
Talk of Parliament brings me to was a
events the recent.
which caused a bound the Czechs and Slovaks
The status of the Emperor during Sagbalien, Manchuria, Europe and in a common State, has mani- the Showa era was the same as that America are to be found on his desk brief but spectacular upheaval in our
well. The as
After this he attends to
Government and focused Western This once after the Meiji restoration. festly grown bolder since Herr pople were as loyal and worshipful affairs of state.
eyes upon us for a dramatic week. "On Wednesday he attends the
The dismissal of the Government On Hitler's fait accompli in Aug-as under Emperors Melji and Taisho.
Despite the conversion of Japan Privy Council.
seemed King may have
a little Therefore Herr Konrad into an industrial nation of the last give audiences to foreign days he of Nahas Pasha by his Majesty the
to Japanese officials, brusque to European eyes. sadors and all the traditions that had sur- both civil and military, who Henlein's somewhat belligerent ruded all the dynastics were going abroad or who have just re-
tria.
to
of
economics
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HAVE no, Intention of giving
vates to women just yet. It is much more important to get at the appalling stood down the rate of Infant mortality. Agure of 80 per cent. It to now about 02 per cent. In the towns and water supply and good medical fact- less in the country districts, pre ities will reduce It even more.
Egypt, let me In conclusion,
Suy Royal Decision must not be judged harshly by
Western
standards. We utterances last week cannot be maintained,
turned home. At noon he takes his Hirohito kept pace with the ad-
CTUALLY, the voice of the Oriental country emerging gradually dismissed as the cries of B
mists of the vance
and kept faith with the past. midday meal, following which there are more state affairs to attend to.
people as well as the but surely from the
move The only ripple on the waters of Tils is varled by more audiences, authority of the King called for n
past. But if we Pharaonic political fanatic. His words too
we move, at uny rate, tradition that appeared in the carly by reading and by exercise. There rectification of the state of affairs gradually nearly echo the speeches
part of the reign at least, was in are times when he takes lunch or which then existed.
surely, Herr Hitler prior
Our watchword is "Evolution" and of the higher the 1935 when Dr. Tatsuitichi Minobe, dinner with some
But before proceeding to force a member of the Imperial Academy, officials or members of the diplomalle crisis the King, with a democratic not "Revolution."
Ever since my Oxford days I have coup d'etat in Austria, and the wrote a book on the Constitution. corps. At such times he pays great spirit rare in Oriental history, an fact that Herr Henlein's utter- Dr. Minobe asserted that the Em- attention to what they have to say
nounced that he would abide by the learned to respect the English char on the affairs of which they are in
decision of a council of his most ex- acter. I made many great friend- charge.
which have Judges, ships In ex-Ministers,
England ances have produced no renun-
read, perienced
and others, including the endured. ciation from Berlin, but rather Additional factors of importance. "The Emperor is widely
When I entered politics my iden books dealing with geography and encouragement, hint inspiration are that Germany would be able in bot deel special interest late Presidenta of the Senate and of
the Chamber of Deputies,
was that Egypt should achieve the to call upon her Austrian re-history. He has always laken a These
Independence which she now has, of all parties were to from the Wilhelmstrasse.
sources, and would more than keen interest in zoology and botany likely find Poland a willing ally, and often has specialists in those be asked to decide on the constitu- and that she should become the ally been questions Honal questions which had arisen of England,
idcal hos that this Now France is nervous, as well she for in Poland there is another which he propounds.
between Nahas Pasha and the King. German minority "His majesty has fixed views re. The King agreed to accept their deci- realised and I am Prime Minister of this country, I can only say, with all might be. Bound by treaty important.
which is straining to find itsgarding exercise. While Crown sion, but Nahas Pusha said "No."
Anglo-Egyptian So he had to go.
my heart, that the to preserve Czecho-Slovakia's
Prince he once told Count Makino freedom.
Alliance, will be safe in my keeping, that he considered golf and tennis status quo, France senses in the
The possible results of a scri- superior to other sports. The Em-
and tint Anglo-Egyptian friendship Austrian anschluss preliminary ous political upheaval in Czecho-peror looks upon athletics not only
will, I trust, be enhanced during my are boundless and as healthful but as affording spiritual
term of office. steps toward German absorp- Slovakia
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But friendliness? How friendly bloodless putach in Czecho-future, which, it is felt, will be over his majesty takes his
sufficient to appease the political bath, and after that is again of affairs discussing dogs, and concluded, "But
As are all these wonderful pedigree do we want our dogs to bo? That is Slovakia as she did in Austria.hunger of the Sudeten Deutsche of state until six o'clock, takes animals
general rule the Emperor
any more intelligent or point on which all dog-lovers feel friendly would need
be a Party. Reactions to the results his evening meal with the Empress friendly than our own of doubtful hotly on one side or the other. And
party is enough to split it into coup de force, and any such of these elections, however, are and their daughter, Princess Tora, parentage?"-or words to that effect. that question, flung into a
That sat me thinking. What do we sectal If a dog is Indiscrimering: almost unpredictable. They may but at times he eats alone because of the pressure state business. the of have the effect "encouraging dinner he either reads or dogs and how much is its affection
the other hand, if Czecho-Slovakia would demand the Sudetens to voice louder and with the Empress, his daughter and the same things? I am not thinking that Franco-and probably more threatening opposition to these in close.altendance, upon him, of breed in this connection, or of worth? On
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