Word: abyssinians
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...Aquitania and fresh from a costly Thameside London hotel that ebullient Negro romanticist Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the Richard Halliburton of his race, last week got home to Harlem from one more Glorious Adventure. With him he brought a 68-page hand-written manuscript titled, "Why I Resigned from the Abyssinian Army...
Baron Aloisi went back to the table with small appetite for the roast. Doing his best, Capt. Eden arranged to keep the League Council in session on the Abyssinian question for a week if necessary. Meanwhile Pierre Laval got a call from headquarters: Things were going very badly at home. Crowds were nervous. Everything pointed to the fall of the Flandin Cabinet when parliament reopened early this week. The Foreign Minister had better hurry home. The last train for Paris left at 10:45 p.m. What time was it now? Nearly 9 o'clock. Mon Dieu...
Shortly after 9 o'clock the telephone rang again. This time it was Signer Mussolini calling. Capt. Eden spilled his coffee. Il Duce had thought of a compromise. He would agree to arbitrate the Abyssinian question-in principle-if Britain and France would let him continue to send troops to Africa. Italy was perfectly agreeable to Abyssinia's two chosen arbitrators: Professor Albert de la Pradelle of France and Professor Pitman Benjamin Potter of Long Branch, N.J., onetime instructor in political science at Harvard and in history at Yale...
...Italian point of view was the League's agreement. Made operative under the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 it still left Italy more or less free after Aug. 25 to treat as she would with the League. The Italian general staff, skeptical from the beginning of the Abyssinian adventure, had insisted for months that it was useless to advance until the rainy season was over, about Sept. 1. Of course if the arbitrators could reach a definite agreement before Aug. 26, Italy might be obliged to abide...
Sentimental. 1) All the Fascist ranting and countermarching of the past 13 years have not wiped from Italian minds the memory of two disgraces: the bloody defeat of their army in 1896 by barbarous Abyssinian tribesmen, and Italy's ignominious rout by Austrians and Germans at Caporetto in 1917. Since then Benito Mussolini has built up a war machine that on paper holds its own with the best in Europe. Abyssinia in 1935 will be a chance to test its worth. To make that test more impressive it would be a purely Fascist war. The commander in the field...