Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opposed this, citing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia as an example of satisfactorily settling a dispute by armed force (TIME, May 18, 1936 et ante), and claimed that the words the U. S. (Ambassador wished to insert are "historically incorrect." Grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis then subsided; the note was sent off to Tokyo; the Conference rose until Japan should see fit to reply, and its chief European delegates departed to their own capitals, leaving underlings to act in Brussels. Members of the U. S. delegation said that Ambassador Davis...
...were not "unprecedented" to indulge .in such a hocus-pocus of exchanging non-diplomatic agents. "I do not know of any exact precedents for this situation," replied the Prime Minister, but afterward the Foreign Office's adept precedent-finders found two. There are "British agents" today in Ethiopia and in Manchukuo, they pointed out, and their presence has not constituted recognition by His Majesty's Government of either the empire in Ethiopia or the empire in Manchukuo...
...fine sieve of this technicality might hold diplomatic eau de cologne, but what British Labor smelled slopping over was yet another British Conservative deal like that Sir Samuel Hoare attempted with Benito Mussolini (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935), only this time a deal on Spain, not Ethiopia. Nevertheless the Labor Party last week put up feeble resistance in the House of Commons, which upheld the Government's course...
...Ethiopian patriot I do not wish to surrender myself to those who have robbed and colonized Ethiopia, nor have any associations with those who have submitted themselves to them," said Asfa Wassan...
...Duce in person to hail him as "The Protector of Islam" and did so (TIME, March 29), last week adopted resolution after resolution of solidarity with Moslems of Palestine. At Addis Ababa, the Italian Viceregal Government's censors passed dispatches announcing that "Leaders of the Moslem community in Ethiopia" have addressed to the League of Nations expressions of "the strongest disapproval by the Arab community in Ethiopia of Great Britain's policy in Palestine...