Word: abyssinia
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...George Hanson was not to be long out of a job. Last week, while home on leave in Bridgeport, he was assigned as Consul General and Charge d'Affaires to be the ranking U. S. diplomat in Addis-Ababa, capital of Abyssinia. Informed observers interpreted the assignment not as a reward to George Hanson but as assurance that the State Department was deeply concerned with the promise of trouble between Italy and Abyssinia (see p. 18), wanted one of its best hands on deck...
...Harlem but every other darktown was on the qui vive at news from Rome that for three nights running II Duce had sat up secretly with His Grand Council, contriving who knew what against the African Majesty of cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro New York News: "Colored America demands that civilization does not permit Italy to precipitate a world race war by invading Abyssinia. . . . Let civilization beware...
...Abyssinia's Great Editor last week that His Majesty turned out an able, world-copyrighted declaration to United Press. The adroit lead sentence: "I am anxious to carry out the recent Geneva agreement as quickly as possible...
...Rome plenty of fighting was expected but no declaration of war, unless Abyssinia should foolishly oblige by declaring war on Italy. To keep his soldiers happy Dictator Mussolini, once a hodcarrier, ordered Italian employers to pay every worker called to the colors full salary for three months, then half salary for the next three months. Finally every soldier who returns must be given back the job he left this week. On 'change Italian government bonds dropped from...
...some 90,000 Abyssinians routed 13,000 Italians, slew 6,500. This week Fascists exulted that smashing Italian victories in Abyssinia in 1935 will "wipe out the shame...