Word: asfaou
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...TIME, Jan. 25, you state that the Crown Prince Asfaou Ouossan, 15, in England, speaks no English, attacked bacon & eggs with a spoon, etc. Wrong again. Your information "spells" French-like. The Prince's name is "Asfa Wassan" in English. He is 16, speaks English (likely better than any English prince speaks Amharic). American quite fluently, French better, interested in many things other than bicycles, and is quite familiar with the use of knife & fork. ERNEST WORK...
...Small, dusky-faced, kinky-haired Crown Prince Asfaou-Ouossan, 15, of Abyssinia, with his sister Princess Tananie-Ouorq and entourage of nine, spent a whirlwind week in London before going to Paris in their tour of European capitals. The imperial children, neither of whom speaks English, went to Sandringham to have luncheon with King George & Queen Mary and to deliver the greetings of their father, Emperor Haile Selassie, They took tea with the Archbishop of Canterbury and stopped the show at the Drury Lane where they went to see Noel Coward's Cavalcade. Princess Tananie bought $20,000 worth...
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