Word: abyssinia
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...Notes on Abyssinia...
...Abyssinia figures quite frequently in the news of today [TIME. Feb. 25] I was wondering whether the following excerpts from an interview appearing in one of the Oslo, Norway, newspapers would be of interest...
...year-old medical doctor, Carl Thorstein Scott, who has just returned from Abyssinia where for a year and a half he was court physician to the last descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, relates that since May 1933 he has treated over 20,000 patients in the great hospital at Dessye, most of them for various lung troubles-Abyssinia is a mountainous country; many also suffer from venereal and tropical diseases...
...Italy has tried to conquer the land three times, but every time they have been beaten back by the brave people, and now it looks as though again an attempt is being made to assail the free land which is a member of the League of Nations. When leaving Abyssinia the young physician was not allowed to proceed north through Sudan on account of difficulties at the border. The Italians had in fact forced their way several miles into the country and the inhabitants were irate. The matter was instantly reported to the League of Nations, but there is probably...
...reply to a query about the Japanese in Abyssinia, it was stated that they have a large concession on cotton growing...