Word: abyssinia
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Rome--Mussolini drafts ultimatum to Abyssinia, demanding "complete satisfaction" for killing of Italian troops; nearly 100,000 youths mobilized as preparedness move...
...Paris the incident was handled with finesse. There was no outburst by Premier Flandin against Emperor Power of Trinity. All the gory details were released, for their valuable effect in preparing the French mind for gory Italian work later in Abyssinia. Then French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin. who last month gave back to Tahitian girls their reputedly indecent pareus, announced that the massacring tribesmen were "nomads who have never been pacified," called Gobad an "occurrence incidental to colonial rule." To butchered young Administrator Bernard went, posthumously, by Premier Flandin's order, the tiny rosette of the Legion...
...Virtual carte blanche from France, with Britain's implied approval, to go as far as Il Duce likes in encroaching upon Abyssinia from Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland...
Should all else fail Power of Trinity, there is always his resourceful consort and coruler, Empress Waizeru Menen. Some years ago when Italy's sporting Duke of the Abruzzi visited Abyssinia, leaving behind him a gift war tank, he little realized what the present Empress would do with it. Her husband had been imprisoned in Abyssinia's Royal Palace by the then Empress Zauditu. Commandeering the tank, faithful Waizeru Menen sent it crashing through the Palace gates, rescued her husband. A woman of the world, Her Majesty journeyed with maximum pomp to Jerusalem two years ago (TIME...
...Some 3,000 shares in the strategic 486-mile railway connecting the capital of land-locked Abyssinia with the sea in French Somaliland. Only over this railway is it practicable for Haile Selassie (which means Power of Trinity) to import, from the outside world, munitions with which to defend his empire...