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...Fourth of July at the State Department, plodding Secretary Cordell Hull said that he had received a flash from the U. S. acting Chargé d'Affaires at Addis Ababa giving the gist of the Emperor's appeal but that the U. S. Government obviously could not act before the full five-page text of His Imperial Majesty's communication was received. Next afternoon President Roosevelt, having glanced at the flash, delivered what admiring Idaho Senator Pope later called "a masterpiece of diplomacy." Around 4 p. m. correspondents found the President in one of his most elated...
...from Washington the State Department still had not ordered Chargé D'Af- faires William Perry George to cable the full text of Emperor Power of Trinity's appeal. An ingenious young man at whiling away sultry hours in the squat, square U. S. Legation at Addis Ababa, Mr. George has taken up the native slingshot, become an adept performer...
...Addis Ababa the Emperor of Ethiopia, shrewd Power of Trinity, who is racially more of a Jew than a Negro, announced last week that his predominantly Negro people are "ready to fight" if attacked. To British correspondents he loudly protested that Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia and Denmark now refuse to sell Ethiopia arms at any price, in obvious collusion with Benito Mussolini. "I shall march to battle with my archbishop carrying the Ark of the Covenant before me!" cried Power of Trinity. "I shall lead my troops in person onto the battlefield and I do not expect to meet there Premier...
...most in the country: control of Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile and life blood of the thriving Sudan cotton fields. Djibouti in French Somaliland is the port of entry for all Abyssinia, and France already controls the only railroad in the country, that between Djibouti and Addis Ababa. There is little reason for her to waste men and money in the country. But France and Britain have one most distinct reason for wishing some white nation to control Abyssinia. For four years Japan has been quietly penetrating the country. Japanese farmers are growing Abyssinian cotton with increasing success...
...tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed to have been sent slogging down through the mud toward Italian Somaliland. In Addis Ababa the wart, smart Emperor of Abyssinia received guests while fondling three cocker spaniels given him in happier times by Italy's Little King, announced that this week Abyssinia will arraign Italy before he League Council...