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...Government to "adopt a two-power air standard-a British Royal Air Force twice as strong as that of any other nation! . . . The League of Nations has failed, and we must rely on our own strong right arm. . . . There is more loot in London than in Addis Ababa, and I prefer that London should not be at the mercy of any Dictator!" Only Comrade William Gallacher, the House's new and lone Communist M. P., opposed Britain's current $1,500,000,000 rush to increase her armament (TIME, Nov.11), a rush so precipitous that last week...
News was bad for Italy in the North, but there again no stigma was attached to regular army troops. Insistently from Addis Ababa went out a report that in a nine-day battle northwest of Makale, spearhead of Italy's northern advance, Ethiopian warriors had captured three mud villages, 18 tanks, 33 field guns, 175 machine guns, 2.605 rifles, had wiped out an entire brigade of the Fascist Oct. 28 Division, a loss of at least...
...some 120 correspondents and photographers who originally beseiged Addis Ababa for news only a scant dozen had not left by last week. Gone were Karl von Weigand, Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker and Evelyn Waugh. The Ethiopians had cheated the pants off the correspondents as individuals and collectively mulcted the world's news and newsreel services to an extent which makes Ethiopia journalism's worst investment of all time...
...Addis Ababa crowd, who had supposed the North Front crowd were "riding around in Italian limousines and bathing in chianti," discovered with surprise on reaching civilization that it was themselves who physically and mentally suffered least. Dictator Mussolini, with the tendency of a onetime editor to hold reporters' lives cheap, let the boys on Italy's front get thoroughly Ethiopia-shocked...
...North Front there was little doubt that Italian forces had either been driven from Tembien Province north and west of Makale or had withdrawn voluntarily. Repeatedly Addis Ababa claimed that Makale had fallen but Italians held it strongly entrenched and Ras Seyoum, Ethiopia's hulking northern commander, was not fool enough to storm it. He had. however, a splendid present for his Emperor who was temporarily mudbound in Dessye-four white Italian prisoners, footsore and ragged but otherwise in a fine state of preservation. Instead of having them mutilated in the oldfangled Ethiopian" way, newfangled Haile Selassie, according...