Foreign News: Tintype of Divinity

If the Presidency of the United States had descended from father to son for the past 2,500 years, and if it were U. S. credo that First President George Washington was the son of Almighty God, things would have been a good deal easier this week for the Japanese Cabinet of terrified old Premier Keisuke Okada. For months Japanese jingoes have been trying to upset the Cabinet with charges that it has insufficiently defended the sanctity of the Divine Emperor (TIME, March 18 et seq.). Last week they were able to scream until Tokyo's welkin...

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