Word: abyssinia
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Proclamation of these stirring events was made by criers in all the 70-odd languages of Abyssinia...
Crowned. Ras Tafari, onetime Regent of Abyssinia, now "King of Kings"; at Addis Abbaba (see ABYSSINIA...
Further, he is Ras Taffari, Regent of Abyssinia. His mother-in-law is dead. His accuser is Armenian Dr. Alexander Garabedian, onetime favorite of Ras Taffari...
This tale Doctor Garabedian tells. Six years ago he came to Abyssinia to practice the quieter forms of medicine. He became a favorite of Ras Taffari. But Ras Taffari wanted to become Emperor. Two persons were in his way. One was the Empress, Zauditu, daughter of the late Emperor Menelik II. The other was his mother-in-law, sister of the deposed (1916) Emperor Yasu...
...Garabedian, Ras Taffari came to him, said the Empress, only remaining obstacle to the throne, needed medical attention. Doctor Garabedian would not undertake the case. Thereafter, claimed Doctor Garabedian, life was a series of subtle plots against his life, falsified political charges, unjust sentences. Last fortnight, he escaped from Abyssinia and Ras Taffari's evil eye, all the way to Geneva, Switzerland. Immediately he went to the International Labor Bureau, sued for $120,000 for persecution, broken health...