Word: abyssinia
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...Small, dusky-faced, kinky-haired Crown Prince Asfaou-Ouossan, 15, of Abyssinia, with his sister Princess Tananie-Ouorq and entourage of nine, spent a whirlwind week in London before going to Paris in their tour of European capitals. The imperial children, neither of whom speaks English, went to Sandringham to have luncheon with King George & Queen Mary and to deliver the greetings of their father, Emperor Haile Selassie, They took tea with the Archbishop of Canterbury and stopped the show at the Drury Lane where they went to see Noel Coward's Cavalcade. Princess Tananie bought $20,000 worth...
Seven foreign countries are represented in the Class of 1936, three men coming from England and one from Switzer-land,-Guatemala, Abyssinia, Brazil, Java, and China, respectively. This number shows a decrease of two from last year. Hawaii, Porto Rico the Philippines, and Cuba are also represented...
...following countries were represented at the meeting: Abyssinia, Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Phillipine Islands, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the United States...
Addison E. Southard, U. S. Minister at Addis Ababa, respectfully sent a recent issue of the Berhanena Salam to the U. S. State Department. The Government's semi-official organ, printed on Emperor Haile Selassie's private press, only paper with a national circulation in Abyssinia. (Abyssinians are more than 90% illiterate), Berhanena Salam's leading editorial was marked for Statesman Stimson's consideration. Extolling the virtues of Temperance, expounding the evils of tej (native liquor, made from honey), the editorial was released by the State Department "not as Prohibition propaganda but as interesting reading." Excerpts...
...Slavery, by Lady Kathleen Simon (wife of Sir John), London, 1929 (Hodder & Stoughton). Her well-documented slavelands list: Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Arabia, Sierra Leone, Liberia; also ("modified slavery") Portuguese East Africa, Portugal's West African Islands St. Thome & Principe, French Equatorial Africa, Tanganyika etc. Lord Cecil recently estimated that there are at least 5,000,000 human slaves today. Liberia's estimated population, including freemen...