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Good Son-In-Law. A valued ally to enraged Dedjazmatch Nassibu last week appeared in the person of Emperor Haile Selassie's favorite son-in-law, swart, smart, bearded little Ras Desta Demtu. Two years ago he traveled to the U. S., paid an official call on President Roosevelt, presented him with two lion pelts (TIME, July 31, 1933). Last week found him at the head of an irregular army estimated at 200,000 preparing to join forces with a disgruntled white settler from Italian Somaliland, a onetime Boer Colonel named Siwiank, to try a surprise attack on General...
...eyed little Haile Selassie Gugsa. Ruler of the eastern part of Tigre Province, he is a direct descendant of that King John of Ethiopia still venerated as a saint by the Coptic Church. His great-uncle, John IV, was a sworn enemy of fierce-whiskered old Emperor Menelik who later defeated the Italians at Aduwa. Ras Gugsa's father kept up the family feud against Menelik and his grandnephew, Ethiopia's present Emperor, was on the best of terms with the Italian administration in Eritrea. When he died three years ago it was in the arms...
...here in Harar. If you visit me later at advance headquarters, bring plenty of medicine for yourself. You will have fever." Thus the New York Times's Laurence Stallings was greeted by His Excellency Wehib Pasha ("Old Eagle Beak"), the big-boned Turkish General (retired) whom small-boned Emperor Haile Selassie has hired as Chief-of-Staff on Ethiopia's southeastern front...
Problem One: No. 1 Ethiopian newspaperman is Emperor Haile Selassie, editor-in-chief of the country's only paper. Because he works 20 hours a day. Conquering Lion of Judah is almost inaccessible to the Press. Occasional handouts from his official press bureau, written in French, contain scant news. Last week, for their chief source of information, correspondents had to resort to private "pipe-lines." Only thus, through expensive bribes, could they track down the hundreds of rumors which flashed daily through the streets of Addis Ababa...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: The Swedish Press boomed Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie for the Nobel Peace Prize...