Word: bellies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later in the day at Geneva a decision was handed out on the original Italo-Ethiopian armed clash at Ualual (pronounced walwal), the No. 1 specific causus belli. The arbiter, Dr. Niccolas Socrate Politis, a big-eared, beady-eyed little Greek Diplomat who for years has been a pushing League careerist, decided solemnly that "from an international standpoint" neither Italy nor Ethiopia was to blame for that bloody encounter in which 32 Italians and 107 Ethiopians were killed...
Your excellent editorial of yesterday entitled "Causa Belli" betrays such a perspicacious analysis of the issues in the Charlestown incident, and such an equilibrated sympathy for all parties involved, that I feel sure into have been inspired by the following fable from the works of an obscure disciple of Aesop, Permit me to quote from...
Texas and Oklahoma are not independent Balkan powers. If they were, they would have been at war last week, with a frontier bridge across the sluggish Red River as causa belli. As it was, Oklahoma's bewhiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray† declared martial law and called out guardsmen on his side of the river. Half a mile away on the other side, Texas' corpulent Governor Ross Shaw Sterling posted a detachment of his Rangers for military duty. The real fighting, however, was done in the columns of the Press...