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Last week Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Negro Lindbergh," sued Hearst's New York American for $500,000 because of a story concerning his Abyssinian adventures (TIME, Nov. 3 et seq.). In denial of the story Plaintiff Julian submitted: "That the plaintiff did not eat so much at his first meal that the Emperor ordered him driven out of the empire . . . [and] the Emperor of Abyssinia never placed [him] in manacles...
Just prior to the Coronation of the Emperor Power of Trinity I of Abyssinia the Associated Press reported from Addis Ababa that Colonel Julian, "then chief of the Abyssinian Air Force, had crashed in the presence of His Majesty, destroying a plane which had been a Coronation gift and so enraging Power of Trinity I that he stripped him of all honors, ordered him out of the country in such poverty that the U. S. colony in Addis Ababa had to make up a purse to pay the Black Eagle's fare home (TIME...
Julian: I may as well be frank. . . . When I first got over there, I was instructed to revise the Abyssinian air force...
...nation "directly." Today if Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia wishes to communicate diplomatically with the Emperor of Abyssinia he must do so through the British Foreign Office in London. Under the new scheme he would telegraph what he wanted to say to the British Minister in the Abyssinian Capital...
...without a country. Wrote one of his white admirers, Colyumist Beverly Smith of Manhattan's Herald Tribune: "Julian [on Sept. i, the day he sailed for Abyssinia] was one of the happiest men I have ever seen. His whole heart was set on the glory of the imperial Abyssinian Coronation . . . when he was to direct the aerial maneuvers from the new imperial plane. And a boundless future lay before him, as officer and statesman of the great Ethiopian Empire...