Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restraint boiled up out of one of the world's most naturally savage peoples. Mobilization means nothing in Ethiopia. When the drums sound, the men go to their chiefs, the chiefs start for the enemy and the war is on. In Addis Ababa the 5,000 in the Emperor's courtyard heard the order out, solemnly applauded three times, then went into a fit. They brandished their swords, accidentally slicing off some of each other's ears and noses, spotted a nearby huddle of white news hawks and had almost mobbed the white men before the Emperor...
...Emperor came out on a balcony and spoke...
...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...