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...porticoed Gebbi (Imperial Palace) overlooking Addis Ababa, bearded Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Lion of Judah, Emperor of Ethiopia, looked upon his savage subjects with satisfaction. In his hands after twelve long months was a new agreement, signed & sealed by the British Minister. For the first time since the Italians swooped on Ethiopia like a buzzing, deadly locust swarm nine years ago, his country was again independent, or close...
Harried Italians had British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's word for it that Italy's African empire was gone. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Lion of Judah, licked his chops in the expectation of regaining Eritrea. In North Africa, the Grand Senussi Seyyid Mohamed Idris expected that Britain would hand him Cyrenaica under some form of protectorate. Disposition of Italian Libya and Tripoli had not yet been suggested...
...Ethiopia (340 A.D.), Egyptians have held top place in Ethiopia's hierarchy. The present Abuna is bearded, scholarly Cyril, who came from Cairo's St. Anthony Monastery. He crowned Haile Selassie in 1928, has spiritual rule over 4,000,000 Ethiopian Copts. At royal worship in Addis Ababa's octagonal Cathedral of St. George, the Emperor kisses the Egyptian's silk-draped silver cross. But the Abuna continually vexes the King of Kings and the proud Ethiopian court: he offends the country's growing nationalism. Ethiopians complain that he will not learn the Ethiopian dialects...
Wrote Timesman Matthews at the end of the interview: "But one could see where [Badoglio's] heart lay when the writer reminded him of our last meetings in Addis Ababa . . . in 1936. 'Those were better times for Italy,' he said. . . . 'Do you remember Termaber Pass,' he asked eagerly, 'and those three days we waited while . . . the Negus [Haile Selassie] fled?' " And as a soldier Badoglio scorned Il Duce's folly in dispersing his army so that only twelve divisions were in Italy when the invasion came...
Last week the worn voice spoke from Addis Ababa. "Ethiopia," it said, "refuses to admit that a nation, which, through treachery and cowardice in 1935 and again in 1940 . . . declared war upon peaceful neighbors, can, at a moment's notice in her hour of defeat, claim the status of cobelligerent. . . . Ethiopia desires to assist those Italians who sincerely seek to [end] Fascist tyranny. . . . She can never admit to that group . . . the genius of poison gas, Badoglio...