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...Emperor furthermore agreed to give all possible aid to the British Army, to stage no private wars, to permit only the British and those to whom they give permission to fly over his country. The management of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway and the wireless station at Addis Ababa will be in the hands of the Commander in Chief of the British Army in Africa. The Army also received the right to use all Italian property in Ethiopia (assessed at $3 20,000,000-$360,000,000) without payment. To help guide the Negus' footsteps, British political advisers...
...Haile Selassie, busy receiving the congratulations of his people, had any such doubts, he kept them to himself. From Addis Ababa, where he has been waiting the British Government's pleasure since last May, he cabled his thanks to Winston Churchill for helping to restore his country's independence...
...fight battles on land. This time, as commander of the newly designated Eighth Imperial Army, he had a whopper on his hands. Lieut. General Cunningham's fame is young: last spring he drove 1,500 miles from Kenya, through Italian Somaliland and the Ethiopian desert right to Addis Ababa, reaching the capital faster than other British columns with far shorter distances to go. His name is almost always bracketed with his succinct Order of the Day before that march: "Hit them. Hit them hard and hit them again...
...took six of these copies of TIME into Addis Ababa with me. As you remember, I went in with other war correspondents and war photographers before the entry of the British troops. There I distributed them around to some of the American missionaries and other Americans still left in the city who leaped upon them like people dying of mental starvation and thirst...
TIME was the first new reading matter to go into Abyssinia, therefore, and into Addis Ababa, in many months...