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...Benito Mussolini in Rome last week flashed a report from Addis Ababa. Italy's active Viceroy of Ethiopia, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, reported he had just made a swing around recently-conquered Southern Ethiopia with a guard of 50, received without incident the homage of thousands of lowland Ethiopians who traditionally hate the highlanders of whom Haile Selassie...
...become in the Near East a legendary figure whose death in a motorcycle accident in England (TIME, May 27, 1935) is considered by many Moslem chiefs to be only a particularly clever British ruse. During the Ethiopian War, swarthy millions believed that Colonel Lawrence was alive in Addis Ababa advising Haile Selassie. Some think he is now in Western Ethiopia and will yet pluck victory for the Lion of Judah. Last week in London was auctioned off a packet of letters from Lawrence which were extracted from him by ingenious Ernest Thurtle, a Manhattan-born member of the House...
...propaganda neither Edda nor Galeazzo saw much future. When Il Duce got ready to start a war, they did, however, see that Count Ciano as an aviator dropped the first bombs, and was the first Italian to alight in Addis Ababa. He and the Dictator's two bombing sons did so well at making headlines for themselves that Father Mussolini ordered that they never be mentioned again in this connection, lest they get swelled heads. Ciano, according to brother aviators, is an in different pilot, but recklessly brave. He eats more spaghetti, prepared with copious melted butter and cheese...
...Hitherto only Austria had extended formal recognition. Hungary has given de facto recognition by extending to the Italian Empire the benefit of her trade treaties with the Italian Kingdom. Turkey has withdrawn her Legation from Addis Ababa, placing its affairs in the hands of the Italian Viceroy...
...Addis Ababa last week the Italian radio station passed correspondents' dispatches conveying the bad news that Ethiopian peasants are sowing practically no grain or coffee, "because they fear it will be confiscated by the Italians or brigands." Viceroy Graziani was reported to have appointed a commission to study ways & means of getting the peasants to plant again. "Rumors that a provisional Ethiopian Government has been formed in the West are ridiculed here," read an Addis Ababa dispatch from United Pressman James Rohrbaugh: "The natives in the unoccupied regions are not fighting against the Italians, but among themselves. The Ethiopians...