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...hand shortly after the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, and during the battle for Shanghai coolly covered both sides: "I'd go in the morning to the Chinese front and then at noon call a taxicab and motor over to the Japanese front." He was at Addis Ababa shortly before Mussolini invaded Ethiopia...
Died. Brigadier General Mengistu Newaye, 45, convicted of leading his Ethiopian Imperial Guard into revolt against Emperor Haile Selassie last December; by hanging; in Addis Ababa...
Thomas Jefferson once said that France was every American's second country. The sentiment has a strangely parochial sound to the contemporary U.S. ear. Since World War II, every American's second country has been the world. In Athens and Tokyo, in Addis Ababa and Zanzibar, there is sure to be an American-quiet or noisy, ugly or handsome, but always as insatiably curious as his camera...
...pictures in your Jan. 2 issue, "Emperor's Homecoming" and "Rebel Leader Hanging in Addis Ababa," are closer to the real Ethiopia of 1961 and its ruler and are more appropriate. The first shows a subject groveling at the feet of the Lion of Judah, and the second, "the bullet-riddled corpse of a rebel chieftain hanged in a public square...
Other captured rebel officers, some of them barefoot, stood in line at the palace to plead with the Emperor for their lives. Students at the University College of Addis Ababa, who had come out in support of the rebels, learned that they could not go back to classes until they had written their individual apologies to the Emperor. That left Ethiopia where it had always been, or perhaps a step or two backward. One Ethiopian diplomat noted bitterly that the fighting had wiped out an inordinate number of the country's scarcest commodity-well-educated...