Word: ababa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This drilling the Emperor kept up only in Addis Ababa, presumably to impress white observers, for he well knows that his wild legions will fight best in savage skirmish formation under the Ethiopian rule of every fighter for himself...
...French Somaliland, next door to bristling Italian Eritrea, the French naval sloop Dumont d'Urville, mounting five and one-half inch guns, ominously arrived last week, anchored to command the French harbor of Djibouti, connected by rail with Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. All week freight cars from Addis Ababa were jam-packed with goods shipped out by frightened foreign merchants in Ethiopia who closed their stores, hoped to keep their goods in storage on French soil until better times. French Premier Pierre Laval, realizing the extreme delicacy of French Somaliland's situation, appointed last week...
...Djibouti the French colony shrugged as onetime U. S. Charge d'Affaires at Addis Ababa William Perry George displayed a brand new. diamond-studded gold watch emblazoned with the portrait of Emperor Power of Trinity who had given it to him "as a token of exceptional friendship.'' The watch was wasted, Frenchmen opined, noted with fresh shrugs that the new colony of U. S. correspondents at Addis Ababa gathered around His Imperial Majesty last week and joined in a solemn toast to Peace drunk in weak...
...Empress Taitou, fourth wife of Menelik II. A more polite version of her predecessor's part in the battle of Adowa was given last fortnight by plump Empress Menen, only wife of Power-of-Trinity, as she nibbled pink iced cake and drank jasmine tea at Addis Ababa...
Meanwhile in Addis Ababa sharp-nosed Power of Trinity was celebrating his 44th birthday. When the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, William Perry George, arrived at the Palace, a large and ostensibly impromptu Ethiopian crowd suddenly produced small U. S. flags from beneath their loose garments, waved these frantically and shrilled something that was supposed to sound like "Long live America!" During the birthday reception, the Abouna Kyrillos, head of Ethiopia's Christian Coptic Church, stood with his large right foot prominently planted on the base of the Emperor's Throne. Grouped around His Majesty were...