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Lion's Budget. More of a buzzard than a lion in face and figure, the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, is nonetheless the lion of Britain's general election. With his famed "balanced budget" now a symbol of the National Government's successful stewardship, the beak-nosed and scrawny Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke last week as a complacent treasurer who expects soon to float a $1,000,000,000 British rearmament loan without so much as flurrying the market. "There is not a single small country in Europe," Mr. Chamberlain declared, "which did not breathe a sigh...
...Glad to see you here in Harar. If you visit me later at advance headquarters, bring plenty of medicine for yourself. You will have fever." Thus the New York Times's Laurence Stallings was greeted by His Excellency Wehib Pasha ("Old Eagle Beak"), the big-boned Turkish General (retired) whom small-boned Emperor Haile Selassie has hired as Chief-of-Staff on Ethiopia's southeastern front...
...Eagle Beak, styling himself "the Hero of Gallipoli," though his role in that British shambles was hardly stellar, pointed out over Harar Province and said portentously, "Out there will be the grave of Italian Fascism. When the Italian native troops hear of ME they will desert...
Definitely Ethiopia cannot be conquered without Italian thrusts up from the south through Harar and in from the east, complementing the thrust down from the north which last week won Aduwa (see p. 19). With 150,000 Ethiopian troops under his command, Old Eagle Beak must try to defend Ethiopia's only railway. To Correspondent Stallings, after boasting through an old soldier's repertoire of battles, Wehib Pasha finally worked up to 1935 and boomed: "The English might conquer Ethiopia or even the French, never the Italians! "It is an axiom that even water will follow the English...
...named "The Doomed Battalion" by newshawks. All are sworn to die for their country. General Haptemikael himself is a veteran of Adowa. Already in Ogaden province was one of Ethiopia's most effective generals, the former Turkish Commander Wahib Pasha. Long exiled by Turkey's Dictator Kemal, "Old Eagle Beak," as he is known? to U. S. correspondents, still clings to his Ottoman fez and grey-green World War uniform. In his charge was one of Ethiopia's prides, a fleet of 20 U. S. motor trucks used to transport black troopers across the desert to rivers and water holes...