Word: abyssinia
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...Bath, England, ex-Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia watched his 15-year-old son, Prince Makonnen, act the part of King of Ethiopia in a Nativity play...
Scoop covers much of the ground covered in Waugh's account of his experiences as a war correspondent, Waugh in Abyssinia. But it has one major difference. In Waugh in Abyssinia he described how he lived for some time with a mysterious Mr. Rickett. Rickett, hinting that he had important news to disclose, was so vague that Waugh, not interested, missed the best news story of the war: when Rickett got Ethiopia's oil and mineral rights from Haile Selassie. In Scoop, poor blundering William Boot is far more fortunate. He falls in love with a German girl...
...others say 10,000, mostly technicians and aviators," reported Correspondent Callender, "but there are said to be some 40,000 Italian soldiers sandwiched between the Spanish troops." Franco's Spanish soldiers sing a slightly obscene song about Italian fighting capacities, the refrain of which is "Spain is not Abyssinia...
...Cavalcade's Fleet Street office from Hove, Sussex: Wherever the Roman Catholic Church was founded, its behaviour during the last few years has been no recommendation, for they evidently show their Christianity by massacre and slaughter both of defenceless mothers, and their own people, as seen in Abyssinia, Ireland and Spain. I would rather be a Moslem...
...greens and even unused postage stamps with which to keep His Majesty's correspondence going. "I am a poor man, yes!" Haile Selassie told Miss Steedman to tell the world, "but I am not an object of charity. Such undignified gifts as these should be sent to the Abyssinia Association for the relief of refugees...