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...must remain always young. Last week his wife gave a family birthday party and, for a birthday present, Il Duce got word from his Ethiopian Viceroy Field Marshal Graziani that Italian and native troops had surprised an Ethiopian force trying to break up the north road out of Addis Ababa, had killed...
Taking advantage of the rains, now drenching Ethiopia in earnest, Ethiopians last week set fire to an ammunition dump near Massaua, attacked Dessye in force and even hurled themselves against the capital, Addis Ababa, in a two-day series of suicidal infantry charges against machine guns and light artillery...
Meanwhile last week Mussolini and Hitler pursued their diplomacy of acts rather than words. Il Duce's son-in-law Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano sealed an agreement whereby the onetime German legation at Addis Ababa accredited to the Ethiopian Government is abolished as such and becomes a German consulate, its diplomatic functions passing to the German Embassy in Rome. Amid ensuing international jitters, State Department officials in Washington intimated that it will now be "difficult" for "embarrassed" President Roosevelt to avoid recognizing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
...Danzig (see p. 20) and Italy's conquest fast gaining de facto recognition, the new "Dictators' Diplomacy" was philosophized upon in Rome by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia. Wrote he of Adolf Hitler's order making Germany's Addis Ababa legation a consulate...
...British Minister to Addis Ababa, heroic Sir Sidney Barton, was in London last week on a "leave" from which His Excellency is most unlikely to return to Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...