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Another feature, called Wings Over Ethiopia, is the only really fascinating travelogue we've ever seen. It covers everything from the debtors' prison in Addis Ababa to a tribe out in the back country where ever wife has five lovers and the babies are ornamented with razor wounds...
...Rome solemn-faced denials were made that Dictator Mussolini was deliberately easing up on the Ethiopians and getting ready to smash toward Tana if on Nov. 18 the British at Geneva succeed in having League Sanctions applied on schedule. It was queer, dispatches from Addis Ababa observed, that Italian bombing planes, now well within operating range, not only had not bombed Ethiopia's Capital up to last week but had not even bombed Harar, where the local Ethiopian satrap was having suspected traitors flogged to death. Repeatedly second-string correspondents jumped the gun with rumors which produced last week...
...speech by His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs caused a responsible correspondent at Addis Ababa to cable: "The Ethiopians feel that Sir Samuel Hoare's rejection of the idea of military sanctions was tantamount to a license to Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy to go ahead with the war without effective interference from the rest of the world...
Almost unnoticed in the crowds of bearded, bedizened chieftains hurrying through Addis Ababa with their yelling followers fortnight ago was one Fitaurari Shimels, trusted adviser of Haile Selassie. Up from Harar, he stayed two days in the capital closeted with the Emperor, then departed. His powwows with the King...
...Mulata. There he was allowed luxurious furniture, rich foods and the run of his prison-but night & day he remained chained to the wrist of a guard. Even so he managed to escape in 1932 disguised as a woman. Since then Fitaurari Shimels, who fortnight ago was in Addis Ababa for orders, has been Yasu's special keeper...