Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hull to feel that everything had been finally settled, sprang naturally from the embarrassment of Peace Lovers when it was at first thought that British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden would find himself reeking with the odor of oil when he rose in Geneva to carry the Italy-Ethiopia crisis onto a high moral plane. The fact that Promoter Rickett is British and at first said that part of his financial backing was British had made young Mr. Eden look out of character for a few days in his world-popular role as the Lindbergh of Diplomacy...
With Britain showing the cleanest possible diplomatic hands this week, with Standard Oil the butt of slashing attacks by New Deal newspapers, and with Ethiopia's Emperor soured on the U. S., alert London financiers called conditions ripe for Promoter Rickett to obtain his vast concession afresh for British interests if Standard Oil really does not want...
With two of its officials publicly spanked in Washington and others higher up caught in telling the kind of technical lies which few Big Businessmen consider reprehensible when dealing with the Press, Standard Oil last week might well consider itself through with an unfortunate international episode. Unlike Ethiopia's Emperor, it never really expected President Roosevelt to defend its concession with U. S. arms. Like every great oil company, it has scores of concessions and near-concessions on its hooks, plays them close to the chest, dropping one trick here, taking another there. Last week it dropped a trick...
After the Council of the League of Nations had been at work on Italy and Ethiopia for a few days last week, the Holy Father Pius XI addressed 15,000 War veterans of 15 nations in the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls thus: "It is with inexpressible joy that, if we have well understood, we seem to see on the black horizon a rainbow of peace which seems to diffuse its rays over the world. This is peace made of justice, charity, honor, dignity and respect for all rights. It is peace which announces happiness for everybody...
...original Italo-Ethiopian armed clash at Ualual (pronounced walwal), the No. 1 specific causus belli. The arbiter, Dr. Niccolas Socrate Politis, a big-eared, beady-eyed little Greek Diplomat who for years has been a pushing League careerist, decided solemnly that "from an international standpoint" neither Italy nor Ethiopia was to blame for that bloody encounter in which 32 Italians and 107 Ethiopians were killed...