Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victoria's campaigners to execute Afghans by blowing them from cannon mouths to impress other Afghans sufficiently with the horror of their death. In Harar last week it was necessary for Ras Nassibu, the Ethiopian Commander facing Italian General Rodolfo Graziani, to impress with similar horror the simple African mind. Twelve Ethiopian traitors, accused of being pro-Italian, were led chained into Harar's market place to the rattle of drums...
...statement of the philosophy that has guided him in his writing. Consequently, Green Hills of Africa, which contains such a statement, marks a new stage in Hemingway's development, throws more direct light on his personality than any book has yet published. Superficially the record of an African big-game hunting expedition, complete with sharp descriptions of wild and sunlit landscapes, child-like natives, killings exciting but not extremely hazardous, it is also packed with Hemingway's comments on literature politics, revolution and man's fate...
...most contemporary ''works of the imagination," even in comparison with Hemingway's own fiction Green Hills of Africa must be put down as a successful experiment. With its swift narrative and its human conflicts it is as carefully organized as a good novel. The clearly visualized African landscapes' lovely in their panoramas, dense and difficult in detail, the remarkable variety of the hunting episodes, above all Ernest Hemingway's passionate absorption in the sport, combine to give the book the freshness and immediacy of a vivid personal experience. Moreover, the "idiotic abundance" of game, suddenly...
...member of Political Section, League of Nations Secretariat; Peter Koinage, formerly resident of Kenya, South Africa, whose father is a tribal leader of three million people Hiving near the Ethiopian border; Captain G. F. Sherwood, reserve Officer in the British Army who commanded native regiments in the German East African Campaign...
...Samuel Hoare's speech to the House of Commons should allay all doubts as to the eventual solution of the East African crisis. In announcing that under no conditions will Britain use military force against Italian aggression, the Foreign Secretary has laid the ghost of a general European conflict and at the same time demonstrated that the cynical attitude long prevalent at Geneva can eventually overcome even the staunchest souls...