Word: ababa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost never is out of France and some of his major coups are a trifle too Parisian. Last week a few prominent journalists working in France were permitted to read what was supposed to be the entire report of the French Secret Service on what happened in Addis Ababa following the bomb attack on Italian Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, March 1). This may or may not have been the real "lowdown," but it made interesting reading and is typical of French finesse in acquiring the goodwill of top-grade foreign correspondents by giving them a peep to ease their heroic...
Summarized, the French lowdown on Addis Ababa last week was that a slanting tin roof made a great deal of difference. Had not Viceroy Graziani & Staff been standing under its eaves, the five bombs, all inexpertly "thrown high" by Ethiopians, would not have glanced and rolled off to a short distance. They gave the Viceroy 38 body wounds but they killed numbers of Ethiopians and would infallibly have killed Graziani & Staff had the tin roof not been there. The Chief of Italy's East African Air Force General Aurelio Liotta not only had to have a leg amputated...
Under Emperor Haile Selassie the populace of Ethiopia were armed almost to a man. The Italians have disarmed almost every native in Addis Ababa. Therefore when blackshirt squads of Fascist militia proceeded after the bombing to retaliate by shooting up the town, its disarmed, comparatively helpless citizens, accustomed always to giving as good as they got, became bitterly incensed at the white men's behaving in a manner so "unfair"- even if the Fascists were striking back because their Viceroy had 38 slugs...
According to the French report, Ethiopian indignation spreading in ever-widening ripples from Addis Ababa has generated native "passive resistance" on a large scale, with food now growing scarce in Italian garrison towns as Ethiopians stubbornly refuse to sell. Agents of the British Secret Service are doing all they can in Ethiopia to further and foment such native discontent, according to the French Secret Service reports, and Ethiopians are being incited to assassinate Italians...
Ethiopia's Minister to Great Britain charged that among natives executed at Addis Ababa after the bomb attempt on the Italian Viceroy (TIME, March 1) were two of his sons and a son of another Ethiopian Minister: ''These three were among the fine flowers of Ethiopia's enlightened intellectuals...