Yasuhito

At Muerren, famed Swiss resort, a descendant of the oldest Imperial House in the world twirled and pirouetted upon the ice. Baron Hayashi, onetime Japanese Ambassador to Britain, watched anxiously as the Imperial personage to whom he acts as tutor, cut figure-eights with joyful abandon. Meanwhile fashionable onlookers whispered the skater's identity. They whispered that he was Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya of Japan, the second son of the Mikado.*

Therefore several sumptuously clad ladies uttered loud screams last week as the Prince executed a hair-raising spin on the ice, caught his left instep with the point of his right skate and crashed, sprawled. . . .

A few hours later Baron Hayashi announced, "At my urgent appeal His Royal Highness has consented to remain within his room for several days. The tendon of his left instep has been slightly strained. His Royal Highness has expressed his determination to resume his skating and skiing at the earliest possible moment, since he intends to leave Muerren shortly to visit the League of Nations at Geneva."

*Yoshihito Harunomia. His eldest son Hirohito, the Crown Prince, acts as Regent of Japan. His third son is Nobuhito Takamatsu-no-miya; his youngest is Takahito Sumi-no-miya.