Word: abyssinia
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Last week Japan was again threatening China while Italy was mobilizing 45,000 more men for possible war service against Abyssinia. Also last week Lewis Fry Richardson, D. Sc., F. R. S., principal of Paisley Technical College, showed in the British journal Nature how the approach of any two nations toward war can be reduced to mathematical equations...
...this day of days did Baron Aloisi want the Italian Dictator to crawl back and cravenly accept League dictation in the Abyssinia dispute...
...rang again. This time it was Signer Mussolini calling. Capt. Eden spilled his coffee. Il Duce had thought of a compromise. He would agree to arbitrate the Abyssinian question-in principle-if Britain and France would let him continue to send troops to Africa. Italy was perfectly agreeable to Abyssinia's two chosen arbitrators: Professor Albert de la Pradelle of France and Professor Pitman Benjamin Potter of Long Branch, N.J., onetime instructor in political science at Harvard and in history at Yale...
With a great pouf of relief Foreign Minister Laval leaped from the table. Eager to help, Maxim Litvinoff, President of the League Council, summoned his colleagues at 12:47 a.m. At 1:37 a.m. the Council passed two interlocking resolutions. They provide that four arbitrators (Abyssinia's two and two appointed by Italy) must reach a decision by July 25, failing which a fifth arbitrator will be chosen by the League Council. All five will be given until Aug. 25 to reach agreement, after which the League Council will take things over, scratch its head, ponder...
Before dinner M. Laval and Capt. Eden had called on Abyssinia's inky-black Delegate, Pecla Hawariate, at his rooms in the Hotel Des Bergues, had told him what they were doing for his little country and advised him that the least he could do, if war could be averted, was to grant important commercial concessions in Ethiopia to Italy...