Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Italian troops were entering their eighth month of active warfare in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa was still 140 miles ahead of the nearest Italian column. Emperor Haile Selassie was neither killed nor captured. Crown Prince Asfa Wassan had returned to Addis Ababa to take over the Government under orders from his father. Remnants of the Imperial Guard drifting back to the Capital still had their rifles, bags of dried peas and the capacity to put up a fight. In the south things were different. The bloodiest battle of the entire War was raging last week around a collection...
...muddied church waters, Archimandrite David lined up three sympathetic Russian bishops whose spiritual powers were, after all, as efficacious as those of any other Orthodox churchmen. In St. George's Church last week these, with the aid of four Orthodox priests, consecrated Samuel David. With his gilt-&-scarlet crown firmly on his swart head, Archbishop David thereupon waited for the Patriarch of Antioch to grant him jurisdiction, to which he felt canonically entitled. Failing that, a schism was forecast among confused U. S. Syrians...
...Niggl has given him the slip but swears he will corner him again somehow when he has recovered from his wound. Berlin's man-made misfortunes seem momentarily on the mend. The pretty head nurse knows his books and admires them. Thanks to her personal influence with the Crown Prince, he is transferred to a better job, with an army corps that is leaving for the comparative comfort and quiet of the Russian front. The nurse and Lieutenant Kroysing fall in love, and when she promises to marry him he forswears his vengeance on his brother's murderers...
...troops, but the end of his ancient kingdom was rapidly approaching. When no news from the front had reached Addis Ababa for days, Correspondent Steer of the New York Times hopped on a truck with a British Army major to deliver 1,850 home made gas masks to Crown Prince Asfa Wassan's troops at Dessye...
...Asfa Wassan's skirmishers, disappearing over the mountain top. Dessye was deserted. An exhausted runner had just arrived from Gerado with news of an advancing column of Italian cavalry followed by tanks, motor trucks. They could only be a mile or two behind him. Just at dusk the Crown Prince came down from his mountain hideaway on muleback to pack his personal belongings at the old palace. At the first bursts of rifle fire on the outskirts of town, he scuttled back to the hills. Correspondent Steer and the British major waited no longer. Loading four Seventh Day Adventist...