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...have only fleeting glimpses of the Duke of Windsor and his Duchess when the couple go to Canada. The U.S. State Department has issued them only transit visas, ∙ ∙ After a three-month separation the First Lady of Ethiopia has left Britain to join Haile Selossie in Addis Ababa, ∙ ∙ When the Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. learned Fiorello H. LaGuardia would stop at the city airport en route from Syracuse to New York City, he declared a public holiday. New York City's hedgehopping Mayor flew over the field, circled several times, winged...
...Ethiopia the British have found that winning a campaign does not necessarily mean finishing it. The Italians have held out in isolated outposts, so as to pin down sizable British forces. Addis Ababa fell on April 6. Last week, twelve weeks later, the British took the stronghold of Jimma with 8,000 prisoners, including eleven generals. Still to be cleaned up: an area in the north, near Lake Tana, where there are 10,000 white Italians; two areas in the south, where there are altogether...
...windswept palace on a hilltop outside Addis Ababa the Emperor received a New York Herald Tribune correspondent, bulky Hiram Blauvelt, and delivered himself of an interview. The Negus said he was grateful to the British for getting him back his throne; that he was grateful to the U.S. for the help sent in his country's time of distress; that he was glad Ethiopia was joining Britain and the U.S. as one of the world's free countries; that he was still a member of the American Museum of Natural History...
...week's end, however, the Negus had still not made his triumphal re-entry into Addis Ababa...