Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daladier has lengthened French working hours by scrapping the 40-Hour-Week Law in "industries vital to national safety." He has broken with the Communist Party, formerly a pillar of the French Popular Front coalition, to the delight of Berlin. And Premier Daladier has recognized the Italian conquest in Ethiopia by appointing Andre Frangois-Poncet to Rome as the first French Ambassador ever accredited to "Emperor Vittorio Emanuele." All this meant that France had been scared into swerving Right...
...workability of partition was laboriously drafting its conclusions, expected to reveal them in three weeks. In Rome, British Ambassador Lord Perth conferred with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano on several topics, one of which was reported to have been the possibility of diverting further Jewish emigration from Europe to Ethiopia, rather than Palestine...
...bloody resistance of the Arabs (see p. 22), made a tentative gesture. "Dependent upon the attitude toward Fascism assumed by Jews in the World as a whole." the Grand Council announced that it "does not exclude the possibility of conceding controlled immigration of Jews into some zones of Ethiopia, even deflecting such emigrations from Palestine." To stimulate those Jews in Italy who are not exempt from the anti-Semitic decrees to apply for emigration permits to go to Ethiopia, the Grand Council further decreed that such Jews: 1) may not own or manage Italian concerns with 100 or more employes...
...shooting first. And, while all men of good will deplored the dismemberment of central Europe's one island of democracy and were saddened for the painful uprooting of the minorities which will leave the ceded territories, realists took heart from one fact. Unlike the rapes of Manchukuo and Ethiopia, the Czechoslovak rape had at least set a precedent, which might flower into a great influence for peace, for aggressors being persuaded to follow legal-diplomatic forms...
...Ethiopia, China, Spain and British seamen have been sacrificed on the altar of national self-love!" continued President Elvin. "Is Czechoslovakia now to be the next sacrifice? Why have not Britain, France and the Soviet Republic plainly told Germany that she must 'keep off the grass?' This brave people of a democratic country must not be thrown to the wolves. This may be Europe's last chance to prevent another World...