Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last January," he said, "France began to 'pussyfoot' in her relations with Italy, trying to smooth over former antagonism. Friendly advances were made, and semi-official approval was given to Italy's actions in Ethiopia. The underlying principle in this move was in keeping with her entire foreign policy: i.e. that an ally against Germany is worth the entire African continent...
...insisting that Italy's Royal Family is opposed to the Ethiopian campaign (TIME, Sept. 30), King Vittorio Emanuele's cousin the Duke of Bergamo sailed this week for war service and the latter's brother the Duke of Pistoia volunteered. Meanwhile the Englishman to whom Ethiopia's Emperor granted a vast concession intended for "Standard Oil'' (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.) was lashed last week in a most unusual dispatch from London by the New York Times's leading correspondent, Frederick T. Birchall. Cabled...
...Reports which controvert all the information coming from reliable sources in Rome have been traced by this correspondent to a common source, which is none other than the enterprising and resourceful Francis W. Rickett. Coming out of Ethiopia with his concession more or less in the discard, Mr. Rickett stopped twelve days ago in Rome, where he found neither official nor unofficial sources of revenue eager to take it off his hands...
...Rickett's motive is interpreted by the less credulous as a desire to save Ethiopia, and incidentally his concession, from Italian rapine by putting new hope into the elements opposed to invasion. He had no success whatever in official [British] quarters, but he does seem to have inspired a certain amount of 'publicity...
...what the effect would be," James ( "Jimmie") Donahue, Woolworth 5?-&-10? heir, cousin of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz. stepped onto a balcony of his Rome hotel, shouted "Viva Ethiopia " squirted a syphon of soda water at a group of young Fascists. Effect: two Government agents presently escorted Playboy Donahue to the Italian frontier...