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...effect this scheme was for Ethiopia's Emperor to consent to receive in Addis Ababa a League High Commissioner who would reorganize the Ethiopian police, finances, jurisprudence, education and health services. Numerous Europeans, nominated by the League, would be needed to put through these reforms. Depending on whether the reforming Europeans were predominantly Italian?and the Committee of Five omitted the vital question of their nationality completely last week?this plan might offer something or nothing to Il Duce...
...door ajar for negotiation." Next day Il Duce, having thus far done nothing but reject offers, made Italy's first proposals. His League Delegate Baron Aloisi asked, in effect, for a partial League mandate over Ethiopia. The country's armed forces would be largely under Italian advisers to the Emperor, and exclusively mandated to Italy would be a part of Western Ethiopia similar to the area His Majesty tried to grant as a concession to "Standard Oil" (TIME, Sept. 9) but smaller. Since Britain and France each hopes to tap Ethiopia's trade by offering the Empire a corridor...
Eager to make his savage people seem as civilized as possible, Ethiopia's shrewd, sharp-nosed Emperor Haile Selassie has done his best to discourage the traditional royal Guebbeur or Raw Meat Feast since this gory spectacle revolted European diplomats who attended His Majesty's Coronation (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). Last week, however, the menace of Fascist Italy seemed so imminent that the Emperor dared not deprive his crack Imperial Guard of the raw meat for which these tribesmen have been slavering. Though they have put off their flowing robes, donned khaki and drilled under Belgian instructors, the Imperial Guardsmen...
...appealing way with him. A Scottish officer took him along to India, gave him the name "Martin," had him educated as a physician in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Dr. Martin retired on a pension after 29 years of duty in the Indian Medical Corps. About this time Ethiopia's great Emperor Menelik heard of Dr. Martin, summoned the distinguished Ethiopian to court, discovered with astonishment that he could speak not a word of any Ethiopian language, made him Minister of Education...
Uncommonly busy at the Imperial seaside villa last week, Emperor Hirohito peered through his heavy spectacles at a bowing and scraping galaxy of advisers who finally decided how to dispose of the sword-murder by a junior officer, belonging to the Army's fire-eating "Ginger Group," of its more moderate Director of Military Affairs (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week's solution: un-Gingery old war Minister General Senjuro Hayashi "accepted responsibility," the Son of Heaven accepted his resignation, and new War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima was hopefully called entirely neutral but more sympathetic to the Ginger Group...