Word: abyssinia
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...Quirinal Palace little Vittorio Emanuele III was waiting for the crowds. Months ago when the Ethiopian adventure first started he told a friend: "If we win, I shall be King of Abyssinia. If we lose, I shall be King of Italy...
...work filming cinemas for the military archives. During the St. Mihiel offensive, he perched his camera on a hill near enough to the scene of action to get himself wounded. After the War, Photographer Dickson got himself demobilized in France so he could go to Abyssinia and take pictures of lions. He also photographed war scenes among the Riffs. Then he drifted back to Paris. Armed with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor and an expansive manner, he set himself up in the automobile bumper business which he still runs as a sideline. His next venture was putting prizes...
Debated the Prime Minister: "With the view of obtaining collective security, we are members of the League of Nations. . . . Whatever the reason, collective security in the case of Italy and Abyssinia was not able to prevent the outbreak...
...legend that Ethiopia's Imperial Family is descended from the seduction by King Solomon of Sheba's Virgin Queen is pure myth. Last month Oxford's University Press exploded it anew with A History of Abyssinia ($2.25) in which the adoption of this legend by Coptic priests to give Ethiopia's present dynasty a savor of ancient lineage and of Biblical if not Divine authority is traced with British scholarship...
...TIME, after what I feared might be a permanent absence? I rate them as one of the most interesting features of the magazine and clip them religiously. A great deal of information is compressed into a small space in Harrison's maps; I remember particularly: "Italy in Abyssinia since 1882," in LETTERS, and "Manhattan's Black City" and ''Baltic Crisis," in TIME. 'Mediterranean Maneuver" and "Memel and Nazis" keep me hoping that Harrison will long continue to put the news...