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Died. Everett Andrew Colson, 50, lean Yankee lawyer, loyal Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs & Minister of Finance in Ethiopia (1930-36) ; after two months' illness; in Washington. Paid $9.000 a year and his living, Brain-Truster Colson shrewdly directed Emperor Haile Selassie's appeals to the League of Nations against Italian invasion, after Addis Ababa had fallen went to Geneva to plead Ethiopia's cause as the first U. S. citizen seated in the League as a foreign delegate...
ROBERT C. COLSON...
...went at once into a huddle with his U. S., French and Swiss advisers. In this crucial hour His Majesty had need of all the cunning which carried him originally to the Ethiopian Throne. Close to the astute ear of Haile Selassie in Geneva were his famed Yankee, Everett Colson, long "the Brain Trust of Addis Ababa." and his wily French lawyer, Professor Gaston Jeze. The jig might be almost up for Ethiopia, but the Great Powers were going to be stung by her Emperor in whatever vital spots he could reach...
...place the whole Empire under non-Ethiopian supervision, envisioned the granting to Italy of preponderant influence over somewhat less than the southern half of the country (TIME, Dec. 23). Deal No. 2 was drafted by the Emperor on the advice of his trusted Yankee friend, Mr. Everett Andrew Colson. It resembles Deal No. i in so many vital respects as to suggest that Premier Pierre Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare were not indulging in hypocrisy when they voiced confidence that Deal No. i was acceptable at least as a basis for negotiation to Italy, Ethiopia and the League. It proved...
Military operations came to a virtual standstill and Addis Ababa buzzed with rumors that the local British and French diplomats were trying to arrange with Yankee Colson some sort of "Christmas Truce...