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With high appetites and eager eyes more than 8,000 responded to Haile Selassie's invitation for a Guebbeur last week. The Emperor merely filled his palace courtyard with freshly slaughtered cattle and opened the gate. Screaming with gusto, each trooper made parallel cuts with his knife in an animal's flanks, seized the end of the strip of flesh between his teeth, pulled with a blood-gushing rip, chewed hard. As usual, the climax of the Guebbeur came a little later when the Imperial Guard grew drunk on the hot blood and cups of potent native mead. Though obliged...
...this was painfully embarrassing to the Emperor. Four days later, to show the sort of party of which he really approves, the 100-odd war correspondents in Addis Ababa were invited to the royal palace for a European-style dinner. Newshawks ate civilized roast chicken from the royal gold plates, drank urbane champagne from the royal crystal glasses. It was scarcely His Majesty's fault that this exhibition of good taste was spoiled by the palace's electric lights going out several times in the course of the meal...
...Ababa many years ago with an impressive manner and a suitcase full of goofer dust, rabbits' feet, crocodile bones and other potent nostrums, soon worked himself up to a post of great respectability and became "the Reverend." When not exorcising spirits, the Rev. Robert Ford played first saxophone in Emperor Haile Selassie's imperial band. He also gave banjo lessons and read horoscopes...
Wherever the hideout is, it is a rude spot. At the last minute it was decided not to take 4-year-old Prince Sahle Selassie there, but to keep him in the royal palace with the Emperor. Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, 19, is already with the troops (TIME...
...contribute, grudgingly gave 60,000 yen, prepared to sell short. Meanwhile the plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...