Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...although few knew it, mounted marines were a real part of the U. S. Marine Corps. During the U. S. "trade-follows-the-flag" era, mounted marines were used in Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Mexico and Nicaragua. In 1903 a squad of marines jogged on horseback through barren Ethiopia to visit Emperor Menelek II. Then in 1909, with China on the edge of a bloody revolution, a detachment of U. S. marines stationed at Peking mounted stumpy-legged Mongolian ponies, set to watching over U. S. citizens living outside embassy quarters. Since then, the Peking marines have remained a mounted...
...count myself as firm a friend of France as my right honorable friend [Eden] !" cried Mr. Chamberlain. "I have always taken the view that the question of formal recognition of the Italian position in Ethiopia was one that could only morally be justified if it was found to be a factor-an essential factor-in general appeasement. . . . The peace of Europe must depend upon the attitude of four major powers-Germany, Italy, France and ourselves. ... If we can bring these four nations into friendly discussion and into the settlement of their differences we shall have saved the peace of Europe...
...Negotiate with a view to simultaneous settlement of the problems raised by Italy's conquest of Ethiopia and the presence of foreigners fighting in Spain...
...Last week Mr. Chamberlain invited to No. 10 Downing Street the Italian Ambassador, spade-bearded Count Dino Grandi, and in Mr. Eden's presence himself made, as Prime Minister, opening moves for quickly closing the breach between London and Rome opened by Il Duce's conquest of Ethiopia and sending of troops to Spain. Mr. Eden was thus subjected by the head of the House of Chamberlain to acute personal humiliation. Saturday and Sunday, for the first time since the Abdication Crisis there were meetings of the British Cabinet. A patient, drably-dressed crowd almost filled the short...
...Chamberlain finally told the House straight out that Mussolini thought the retention of Eden as Foreign Secretary had meant that Britain "was trying to lull the Italians into inactivity while Britain completed her rearmament and was in a position to take revenge for Ethiopia. That idea is fantastic and never entered our heads, but it is the idea held in Rome...