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...Ualual incident no cause exists for war, ridiculed what he called the Fascist concept of a "Supernatural Mission for Eternal Rome" and scathingly declared: "In France we have a proverb, 'When a man wants to drown his dog he first says it is mad.' Italy, having resolved to conquer Ethiopia, begins by calling Ethiopia...
Thus the League Council, which let Japan conquer Manchuria from China and failed to punish Germany for breaking the Treaty of Versailles on which the League Covenant itself is based, is asked by Italy this week: Why get excited about Ethiopia...
...free the slaves of Ethiopia. People interested in neither atrocities nor slaves but with a taste for the mystic were provided for by Fascist Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. "You are going to victory," he informed departing Italian volunteers. "It is so inexorable-I wish to say fatal- to conquer...
...years later Johnson was writing: "Dr. Goldsmith has a new comedy in rehearsal at Covent Garden to which the manager predicts ill success." "She Stoops to Conquer," had at last been hit on as a name, and the opening was set for the night of March 15th, 1773. But the rehearsals dragged badly. Colman's pessimism was contagious. The actors walked through their parts like sulky children. At the last minute the male lead quit, and an erstwhile Harlequin had to take over the part...
...Abyssinians are incredibly proud nationally-proud of their thousand-year-old culture, their country, their independence. They have never yielded to subjection and have checked all attacks on their borders. Italy has tried to conquer the land three times, but every time they have been beaten back by the brave people, and now it looks as though again an attempt is being made to assail the free land which is a member of the League of Nations. When leaving Abyssinia the young physician was not allowed to proceed north through Sudan on account of difficulties at the border. The Italians...