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...Ethiopia's capital at Addis Ababa, King-Emperor Haile Selassie did not see fit to offer his condolences...
Emperor Haile Selassie had another way in 1935 when Mussolini's troops attacked: "Everyone will now be mobilized, and all boys old enough to carry a spear will be sent to Addis Ababa. Married men will take their wives to carry food and cook. Those without wives will take any women without husbands. Women with small babies need not go. The blind, those who cannot walk or for any reason cannot carry a spear, are exempt. Anyone found at home after receipt of this order will be hanged...
...Ethiopia the Packards saw lagging Marshal Badoglio drive like mad to reach Addis Ababa at the head of his army. They also watched Blackshirt politicians arrive by plane to snatch a share in the victory publicity. Count Ciano took a hotel room next to the Packards' and joined them one night for a drink. "He was bubbling over with enthusiasm. 'England is through,' he said, 'or she would have taken a stronger stand against us. . . . We are ready for the future. We have the only experienced army in Europe as a result of our Ethiopian training...
Direct Action. As a toughened-up career diplomat (his wife knitted socks with a revolver at her side while he dug air-raid shelters in Addis Ababa), trouble-wise Envoy Engert knows the Axis technique of penetration and disruption. He also knows that Afghanistan's 245,000-square-mile "kingdom of tumult" is the doorway through which all the land armies of history have fought their way to the riches of India...
...married a girl whose family has lived in Palestine for generations, and now he speaks most of the polyglot dialects of the Near East well enough to make himself understood, from Adrianople to Addis-Ababa-is so fluent in several that he can often wangle his way into news spots that might otherwise be closed...