Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legions of a momentarily resurrected Rome march along the plains of Ethiopia, in defiance not only of Haile Selassie but of the opinion of the world, one course of action alone remains to be taken. Sanctions, a word which in the hands of journalists has run the gamut of meaning from embargos to war, must be placed upon the international gangster to bring him to his knees...
Received by a Prince of Japan's Imperial House at Osaka, the Ethiopian chirped: "Ethiopia has many things to sell and also wants to buy from Japan...
Rapturous Japanese businessmen snatched at copies of Nichi Nichi last week to read an analysis showing that war between Italy and Ethiopia would help practically every Japanese industry except wheat and possibly chemicals. Biggest slices of cake would go to shipping, heavy industry, steel, rayon...
...Ethiopia's only woman general, Waizeru Asegedetch, granddaughter and heir of the late Ras Tassama, climbed on her sumpter mule last week to lead her warriors toward Ogaden, a key point in the expected Ital ian advance from the south. Correspond ents noted that General Waizeru's men, though ununiformed, were better equipped with modern rifles and machine guns than most Ethiopian levies. Her father, bearded smiling General Dedjazmatch Haptemikael, is in the field at the head of a body of troops which has already been named "The Doomed Battalion" by newshawks. All are sworn to die for their country...
That Japan's blood brotherhoods still flourish disturbingly appeared last week when the notorious Black Dragon Society announced Tokyo festivities in honor of a representative recently dispatched to Japan by Ethiopia's hard pressed Emperor. This representative, potent Daba Birrou, accompanied the Duke of Gloucester on H. R. H.'s sporting tour in Ethiopia (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). He ranks among the Emperor's closest friends, though he reached Japan entitled merely "Secretary to the Honorary Japanese Consul for Ethiopia in Osaka, Mr. Chuzaburo Yukawa...