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...hearty spirits, Fox Movietone's Laurence Stallings bubbled of Ethiopian beauties "too proud to notice a white man," confirmed that at the first sound of an Italian bombing plane Ethiopian officers dive for the nearest Red Cross shelter. A prized Stallings snapshot shows the Ducal Palace of Emperor Haile Selassie's younger son Makonnen at Harar flying the Red Cross flag although not used for any Red Cross purpose...
...correspondent died in Ethiopia, Chicago Tribune's Will Barbour. Of him in Manhattan last week Emperor Haile Selassie's Public Relations Counsel Josef Israels II said, "I like to place Will Barbour among some of the other empire builders who are buried in African soil, because never in all the history of journalism has the press so swiftly, so expertly and so completely built an empire of news and enlightenment in a wilderness hitherto unpenetrated." This was one way of alluding to the fact that it remains impossible to obtain for love or money anything remotely approaching...
...Tembien Province north and west of Makale or had withdrawn voluntarily. Repeatedly Addis Ababa claimed that Makale had fallen but Italians held it strongly entrenched and Ras Seyoum, Ethiopia's hulking northern commander, was not fool enough to storm it. He had. however, a splendid present for his Emperor who was temporarily mudbound in Dessye-four white Italian prisoners, footsore and ragged but otherwise in a fine state of preservation. Instead of having them mutilated in the oldfangled Ethiopian" way, newfangled Haile Selassie, according to dispatches, "showered his first white prisoners with food...
...Tabouis method is to scare the wits out of Communists and Socialists every few days by discovering that the Capitalists have a new peace up their sleeves. Last week Genevieve was afraid the Capitalists were about to persuade Emperor Haile Selassie to become the arch-peacemaker with the assistance of King Leopold of Belgium. The Belgian Government was to propose at Geneva that the League draft a new plan similar to but less obvious than the Hoare-Laval Deal, while public opinion is distracted by sending a League mission to Ethiopia at Italy's request "for the announced purpose...
Thus His Majesty the Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo is happy in holding the thought that he was not set up by Japan as a puppet, but restored by loyal Chinese to a throne in the realm of his Manchu forefathers-a happy thought flatly contradicted by the facts...