APOLOGY TO JAPAN
MAYOR OF SEATTLE. SLIGHT ON EMPEROR. (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Seattle, August 12. The second occasion within a fortnight in which an official found it necessary to apologize to Japan for a slight on the Emperor - occurred to-day when the Mayor, Mr Charles Smith, in a letter to the local Japanese Consul expressed regret because Community Club members in a masquerade depicted the Emperor, pulling a jinrikisha carrying Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia. Mr Smith gave an assurance that it was not intended to ridicule Japan, but was merely a manifestation of American sense of humour.
The Emperor of Japan was recently depicted in a cartoon in the magazine Vanity Fair wearing fantastic dress and pulling a jinrikisha on which reposed a large scroll with the accompanying title: “Japan’s Emperor Gets the Nobel Peace Prize.”
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Southland Times, Issue 25362, 14 August 1935, Page 7
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