Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gathering his followers together-his Royal Guards, his Imperial Legion of Africa, his Sublime Order of the Nile, his Distinguished Order of Ethiopia, his Black Cross Nurses-he embarked once more, perhaps for the last time before visiting the penitentiary, on an exposition of his doctrines and his hopes...
...Taffari, Prince Regent of Ethiopia, who concluded his visit to France (TIME, May 26), rarely smiled, the French noticed. Everywhere he was as solemn as Solomon, his ancestor. Once the rotund ex-Shah* of Persia was pointed out to him, but still he did not laugh, he actually cut him dead. French officials showed him everything that would make an ordinary mortal laugh, but black Ras laughed not-not until he was taken to Fontainebleau, when he should have been both impressed and serious. The subject of Ras' amusement was carp-carp swimming peaceably in a pond...
...give thanks to France for having sponsored Abyssinia's entry into the League of Nations, arrived in la ville lumiere Ras Taffari, Crown Prince and Regent of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), the first of his House to visit Paris since the reign of Louis XIII (1610-1643). With him he brought two lions and two zebras for President Millerand...
...agenda of the Assembly: Admittance of Ireland, Ethiopia (Abyssinia), who will be asked to abolish slavery; and possibly the admittance of Turkey, Mexico, Germany; consideration of reports from the following ten Commissions of the League...
...Ethiopia, thou land of our fathers...