Word: ababa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made up to look amazingly like Haile Selassie, had been fooling the Geneva City authorities all day, driving about in a handsome limousine and laying wreath on Swiss monuments. He even fooled the Permanent Italian League of Nations Delegate, Signor Bova-Scoppa, who used to be stationed in Addis Ababa. Last week Delegate Bova-Scoppa responded courteously when accosted on the street by the bogus "Emperor...
...French and Swiss advisers. In this crucial hour His Majesty had need of all the cunning which carried him originally to the Ethiopian Throne. Close to the astute ear of Haile Selassie in Geneva were his famed Yankee, Everett Colson, long "the Brain Trust of Addis Ababa." and his wily French lawyer, Professor Gaston Jeze. The jig might be almost up for Ethiopia, but the Great Powers were going to be stung by her Emperor in whatever vital spots he could reach...
...into shape plans for the Empire's new Government. Top dogs, all Italian, are members of the Council of Government headed by the Viceroy. They are advised by the Board of Consultors composed of six prominent Ethiopian chiefs and six leading Italian emigrant farmers and merchants. In Addis Ababa last week it was believed that some 400,000 of the Italian soldiers and laborers now in Africa will settle there, later bringing out from Italy their families "to colonize these depopulated lands with the fecund Italian race...
Freshly appropriated by Il Duce's order is $8,000,000 to build as rapidly as possible seven great arterial roads linking Addis Ababa for trade and strategic purposes with all key cities of the Empire. Merged under the Viceregal Government with Ethiopia are the onetime Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland...
...Following the Italian occupation of Addis Ababa, Mussolini announced that (1 Italy would move to capture the Sudan, 2 peace terms will be arranged by the League, 3 he would now transfer the Italian troops to the Austrian border, 4 Haile Selassie 'could continue to rule, 5 Italy's colonial aims were achieved...