Word: bodard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valor against the black mobs of Addis Ababa, Premier Albert Sarraut's Cabinet last week voted to promote France's Minister to Ethiopia Paul Bodard from a Chevalier to a Commander of the Legion of Honor. Simultaneously Mme Bodard was made a Chevalier. These non-political honors went to the Bodards for corralling 2,000 frightened whites in the French legation in Addis Ababa...
Good-by Calls. Back in Addis Ababa last week, with his Empire on its last legs, Haile Selassie drove quietly to the French Legation beyond the race track. There he explained to French Minister Paul Bodard that he was morally bound to keep on fighting, but that with Italy's legions sweeping down unchecked from the north further defense of Addis Ababa was now impossible. It was best for the Empress and their two sons, Crown Prince Asfa-Wassan and round-eyed Prince Makonnen, 13, to leave the country. The Coptic monastery in British-protected Palestine was the first...