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Roots for this last move reach deep into the rich manure of European diplomacy. Abyssinia is perhaps the last independent kingdom in Africa. Ever since the gaudy coronation of kinky-haired Power of Trinity I as Emperor four years ago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930), the country has been a secret battleground for Europe's colonizing Great Powers. Only port of entry is Djibouti in French Somaliland. Otherwise Italy and Britain hem the country in on all sides. In addition Japanese tycoons who have been dumping cheap cotton goods and manufactures in the country, are negotiating for great tracts of land...
Gone from Turkey is the harem of the late Sultan Abdul Hamid ("The Damned") with its thousand wives and its scores of eunuchs. The blackamoors whom the Turks brought from Abyssinia and emasculated to stand dispassionate guard over their women, remain. Some have found jobs in Istanbul's national museum. Others work as doormen, waiters, handymen, servants. The rich and successful eunuchs who once held vast power in Turkey, help to maintain clubs near the great oldtime palaces, where the destitute members of their lost calling gather, dress up, observe the old etiquet, gossip, intrigue and try to keep...
Last week Abyssinia's Foreign Minister Gueta Herouy suddenly announced that "because of the machinations of a certain power" the match had suddenly been called off. These were weasel words to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi which frankly announced that the machinations were those of Bcnito Mussolini...
...this slur on the nation's honor, at this insult to a friendly power. Admiral Hadjikyriakos. commander of the Greek navy, radioed the malodorous Maiotis to return to Piraeus instantly. The ship swung round. Samuel Insull, smiling happily under his new black mustache, thought he was bound for Abyssinia, one of the few spots in all the world where he is safe from extradition. Only when the harbor of Piraeus rose before the Maiotis' disreputable bow did he know what had happened. Then he promptly had another seizure...
...tossed sickishly about on his little freighter reeking of stale oil and garlic and whimpered that shiploads of U. S. pirates were lying in wait to kidnap him. At the last moment the French Government decided to forbid his landing at Djibouti, French Somaliland, chief port of entry for Abyssinia...