Word: abyssinia
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...appointment of Addison E. Southard, Kentucky white man, as first U. S. Minister to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), was reported last month contemporaneously with a meeting in Washington of the Republican National Committee, upon which sits many a Negro. Last week the Pittsburgh Courier (outstanding U. S. Negro weekly) inveighed against "the eminent politicians of the Negro race" and commented sharply on Mr. Southard's appointment...
...peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen there subject to Britain, France, Italy and Spain are quiet; and the ancient Ethiopian realm of Abyssinia abides prosperously under Empress Waizeru Zauditu and her great "Mayor of the Palace" Ras Taffari...
...dispute was engendered when the J. G. White Corporation of Manhattan announced that it had obtained a contract from Ras Taffari, Prince Regent of Abyssinia (otherwise known as Ethiopia) for Empress Waizeru Zauditu, to build a $20,000,000 dam across the Blue Nile at Lake Tsana...
Whether or not the British have a right to prevent the building of the dam, seems to be a moot point. The conclusion of the Italo-British Treaty, which divided Abyssinia into spheres of influence, has been hotly denounced by Ras Taffari at the League of Nations, of which Abyssinia is a member. Moreover, the Anglo-Abyssinian treaty has been called unilateral (benefiting only Britain) and therefore not valid, according to the League. If this is so, Ras Taffari would merely have to denounce it to make it null and void and Britain could prevent the building...
...Fascist Government, after having settled our debts with the United States and Great Britain, concluded a treaty of commerce, amity and navigation with Jugoslavia, and a pact with Great Britain concerning common interests in Abyssinia, a treaty of commerce with Siam, an arbitration pact with Spain and one with Rumania, a treaty of commerce with Guatemala, a treaty of friendship with the Yemen (Arabia...