Word: abyssinia
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Within a few hours all the world knew what this meant: Italy was determined to carry on her "war" with Abyssinia (TIME, Dec. 24, et seq.) and would brook no interference. Benito Mussolini wanted all Italy to understand that both France and Britain were backing him to the hilt...
...only just recovered from a heart attack, was appointed British agent for a suddenly called Franco-British-Italian conference at Geneva to try to avert something almost as embarrassing as a war-formal action by the League of Nations Council, meeting this week in its 86th session. Since 1923 Abyssinia has been a League member in good standing...
France was as anxious to keep Italy from a too elaborate, too expensive campaign in Abyssinia for another reason. Keeping Nazi Germany from absorbing Austria and growing too big is a vital point in France's foreign policy. Italy long ago undertook to do that chore for her. With her own vivid memories of the expenses and difficulties of an African campaign, France was frightened last week that if Italy were once embarked on an Abyssinian campaign she would be forced to send so many troops to Africa that Adolf Hitler would have the chance of a lifetime...
Japanese Threat. It is easy to understand why France and Britain should not feel too unhappy at the idea of Italian control of Abyssinia. Their neighboring colonies have suffered severely from raids by Abyssinian tribesmen. Italy would probably stop that. Nineteenth Century Britain was content to discipline Abyssinia in hard-fought border skirmishes. Since then she has acquired peaceably what she wants most in the country: control of Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile and life blood of the thriving Sudan cotton fields. Djibouti in French Somaliland is the port of entry for all Abyssinia, and France already controls...
...Dead. Knowing only a little of Abyssinia, its blazing heat and freezing nights, its mosquito-infested swamps, fierce tribesmen, arid plains and almost impregnable mountains, what benefits then does Italy expect to get from its subjugation? Italian Finance Minister Count Paolo Thaon di Revel announced last week that the Italian expedition to Abyssinia had already cost the Fascist Government $50,000,000, and Italian troops have not yet crossed the frontier. Fascist bigwigs divide the Abyssinian advantages of the campaign into two groups, sentimental and practical...