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...Geneva agitated agents of Dictator Mussolini hastily withdrew from circulation last week an Italian map on which it appeared that Power of Trinity I was correct when he protested to the League that the towns in which Italian and Abyssinian troops recently clashed were on Abyssinian soil (TIME, Dec. 24 et seq.) Mussolini now contends that the "Ualual Incident," a three-day pitched battle in which 30 Italians and 110 Abyssinians died, occurred on Italian soil, the frontier line never having been exactly drawn. With the telltale map whisked out of the way, the League Council sat down to hear...
...general call for all General Staff officers to assemble for a conference in the Palazzo Venezia. Meanwhile Italian papers were allowed to print something that they had known for many a week: Heavy drafts of Italian troops are being sent to Eritrea and Italian Somaliland to "guard" the Italian-Abyssinian border...
...Church of the Holy Sepulchre is actually in custody of a Moslem family, but six Christian sects maintain and hold services in it: Greek Orthodox, Latin, Armenian, Coptic, Jacobite and Abyssinian. The Church of the Nativity is surrounded by convents of Greek, Latin and Armenian Churches, whose disputes over the rights to the sanctuary have been going on for centuries...
...Tokyo lawyer, wife-hunting, dusky Lij Araya, prince of Ethiopia, found very charming a picture of Miss Masako Kuroda, daughter of Viscount Hiroyuki Kuroda of Japan. There was considerable correspondence between Addis Ababa and Tokyo, and finally a match was arranged, hailed with glee by both the Abyssinian and Japanese Press...
...came to Solomon with lavish gifts, considerable skepticism and many hard questions. When she saw his wisdom, his piety, his house, his banquet table, his servants and their apparel, she renounced her skepticism and "there was no more spirit in her." From that lack of spirit, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of Abyssinia's present monarch, crafty brown Haile Selassie. The Arabian version has it that the Queen of Sheba's name was Balkis, that she went to Solomon in fear and trembling. Consensus of scholars is that the capital of Saba (Sheba) was Mareb, about...