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...seen by the eyes of Islam. Moslems in Italian North Africa, who recently were invited by Il Duce in person to hail him as "The Protector of Islam" and did so (TIME, March 29), last week adopted resolution after resolution of solidarity with Moslems of Palestine. At Addis Ababa, the Italian Viceregal Government's censors passed dispatches announcing that "Leaders of the Moslem community in Ethiopia" have addressed to the League of Nations expressions of "the strongest disapproval by the Arab community in Ethiopia of Great Britain's policy in Palestine...
Although the Harvard Faculty is remarkably reticent about expressing any opinion on the famous Black case, August J. Saxler ocC, a choir boy form Birmingham, Ababa, who claims relationship with the much lamented Court Justice, is sure it just...
When the Fascist ax & rods drove the Lion of Judah from his Ethiopian home, Benito Mussolini was faced with grueling transport problems. Only means of carrying food, garrison troops and colonists from the Red Sea coast to Ethiopia's capital was by the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad, 494 mi. of rough, single-track, narrow-gauge roadbed over which crawled rattling, second-hand rolling stock to a terminus in French territory...
...most important highway planned was to stretch for 800 mi. from Asmara- linked to the Red Sea by a short Italian railroad-through Dessie to Addis Ababa. It was to be wide enough for four lines of traffic, durable enough to withstand big rains, which every summer since the days of Pharaoh have made Ethiopia a 100% impassable sea of mud. A second road 50 mi. long was to link Debarech in the country's deep interior and Gondar, an important town 25 mi. north of vital Lake Tana, which empties its waters into the Blue Nile, feeds British...
...right of conquest. Another 20% belongs to Italy undisputed, dating from the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 21, 1935). The French are the largest shareholders, holding 35%, but fear Italy has bought up nearly enough shares elsewhere to own stock control of this 494 miles of rail, linking Addis Ababa with the French port of Djibouti. Last week, according to the French, Il Duce had forced the road into a deficit for the first time in 14 years by ordering Viceroy Graziani last year to "ship nothing by rail on which freight has to be paid," using motor transport instead...