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...Franklin Roosevelt, two-time Man of the Year, could not justly hope to repeat. In the Old World in 1935, for the first time since Versailles, a group of potent statesmen exercised concerted influence over other nations than their own. . . . . . . Prime undisputed rankings were those of Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie as Underdog of the Year, and of Italy's Dictator Benito ("Just-A-Man") Mussolini as Aggressor of the Year. The other leading characters in the puzzling exhibition included the youthful Front for Idealism, Great Britain's Captain Anthony Eden; his more practical Elder Uncle...
...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...
...review by Lewis H. Titterton of With Napoleon in Russia, the newly-discovered memoirs of Napoleon's aide, General Armand de Caulaincourt* (TIME, Dec. 2). The line was at the end of a quotation from Napoleon which de Caulaincourt had offered as proof of the Emperor's unscrupulousness in winning allies...
Born. To Empress Nagako of Japan and Emperor Hirohito, a son; in Tokyo...