Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempting to prevent a possible European war, for unifying his nation, and risking his life in the defense of it. for TIME'S Man of the Year, I nominate a monarch, scholar, statesman, and hero-the Emperor Halle Selassie...
What King George wanted everyone to know was that His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Samuel Hoare had cabled to Sir Sidney: "You should use your utmost influence to induce The Emperor to give careful and favorable consideration to these proposals and on no account lightly to reject them. On the contrary, I feel sure that he will give further proof of his statesmanship by realizing the negotiation which they afford and will avail himself of them...
...approximately half of Haile Selassie's Empire, was briskly approved in Paris last week by Sir Samuel Hoare who had just finished announcing in the House of Commons that to be "acceptable" any terms of peace must satisfy Italy, the League and Ethiopia (see p. 21). To make Emperor Haile Selassie more satisfied than he otherwise might have been, Dictator Mussolini opened up last week for the first time with 200-lb. air bombs (see p. 21). Premier Laval, who months ago as Foreign Minister sold Il Duce a free hand in Ethiopia so far as France is concerned...
...bombs in the Dessye raid were not the cheap lightweight fragmentation bombs of other Italian air raids. Two unexploded 200 pounders were carefully carried to the ruins of the Emperor's garden, where the Negus and his kinky-haired son posed for photographers with a foot on each, in the attitude of successful lion hunters...
...again missing Haile Selassie. The hospital's medical supplies were ruined. Fortunately many of the war correspondents had brought their own. All through the night one Franz Roth, Associated Press photographer, worked with Red Cross doctors anesthetizing patients. If Italians had outraged the world and missed the Emperor, their two bombing raids did have one expected result. At a secret chieftains' meeting enraged Emperor Haile Selassie finally agreed that the time had come to meet the Italians in open battle, let it be known that he would hurry north to lead 600,000 men against Marshal Badoglio. Stupid...