Word: ababa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was comforting news for squadron commanders and Italian aviators, heartily weary of the overpublicized exploits of Il Duce's son-in-law, Count Ciano, but it was sad news for the World Press. Flung into a feudal land, correspondents in Addis Ababa and behind the Ethiopian troops have been able to send no first-hand news at all in eight weeks of warfare. Marshal Badoglio's order last week meant that all the elaborate mechanism of the international Press will take more time to tell the world less than did Editor Horace Greeley or Artist-Correspondent Winslow...
...visited Harar, Ethiopian headquarters in the South, Emperor Haile Selassie motored last week to Dessye, main Ethiopian headquarters in the North, over a road especially repaired to make the journey possible. Dessye greeted the Emperor with arches of leaves, transparent banners, and a delegation of policemen imported from Addis Ababa to keep order. Red Cross signs, traditional marks of an Ethiopian brothel, were hastily taken from the numerous houses of joy, and all night long minor chieftains chanted the psalms of David while the Emperor conferred with his onetime Minister to Paris, modest General Tecle Hawariate, who, it was announced...
...British Kenya border. This proved not true. Last week in his original fortress-prison, Gara Mulata, Lij Yasu died, "of paralysis," read the announcement, "brought on by his vices.'' His body was piled on a motor truck, jolted to Dire Dawa, chuffed by train to Addis Ababa. In a graveyard 100 mi. to the north of the city Lij Yasu was buried beside his father. The only mourner was Amba Hanna, the aged priest who had been handcuffed to Lij Yasu for nine years. ¶ From the southern front came a succession of contradictory stories which slowly boiled...
Having publicly taken up knitting in Addis Ababa, as a strong hint that they feel themselves barred from all real news sources, correspondents clicked needles last week while the Ethiopian Government made by far the tallest claims they have jabbered since war broke...
Joseph Israels 2d, one of the Addis Ababa correspondents who stressed the deal most heavily in dispatches last week, was so far from angering Haile Selassie thereby that the Emperor asked him two days later to read off for His Majesty in English a radio broadcast to U. S. listeners in which the wily Ethiopian cried: "You people of the United States can help . . . inflict ... the international form of punishment, known as sanctions, upon the Italian people." But the King of Kings concluded, "I ask no one to take the sword against Italy...