Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Certain Negro." Rushing to the Palace went "the Black Eagle of Harlem." Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, to answer personally a canard, emanating from Rome, that a "certain American Negro" was plotting to kill the Emperor. After a tense scene Colonel Julian fainted, then recovered, emerged smiling and cried...
...Millions of American Negroes have too much confidence in me to believe such reports. . . . The Emperor has granted me permission to accompany any one of three major generals to the front...
...gnawing their fingernails at Addis Ababa, Harar and Dire Dawa knowing less about the fighting they are supposed to be covering than the newspaper reader in New York who, at least, has prompt news from the Italian side. . . . "Correspondents have little hope that the postponed journey to Dessye with Emperor Haile Selassie will be more colorful than a highly interesting Cook's tour, with no possibility of seeing action, since the correspondents, whom Premier Benito Mussolini does not want harmed, presumably will be an effective bodyguard against bomb attacks on the Emperor's party...
...rosa dickering which the British Government would not acknowledge, progressed by getting the League to give Britain and France a mandate to make the deal respectable (TIME, Nov. 11) and last week was having pressure exerted at Addis Ababa. For the first time Ethiopian statesmen close to the Emperor discussed openly with correspondents this hypothesis: Suppose Emperor Haile Selassie should keep his rich native Province of Harrar but give up the Province of Ogaden in which the original Ualual Incident occurred, the fruitful Webbe Shibeli Valley and of course Aduwa, "if by this enlightened sacrifice His Majesty could bring...
Even a few days before, mention of any such deal had provoked the Ethiopian Foreign Office to blasts of scorn. Last week the feudal Rases of Ethiopia were being sounded by Emperor Haile Selassie's confidential agents. Some of them reacted by demanding that His Majesty at once take the field and fight, as Ethiopian sovereigns always did in days of old. Instead, the Emperor sent Arks of the Covenant to encourage his troops (see p. 16) and talked of making only brief dashes to & from the front...