Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since application of sanctions in the case of Ethiopia backfired badly, scarcely anyone now expects the European powers to again use sanctions, unless the U. S. can be persuaded to apply them also. Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo had this point well thought out too, suavely demanded that the International Advisory Committee on Chinese-Japanese Conflicts constituted...
...Fascist headache because of her mutual assistance pact with Soviet Russia. Glowing with good food and drink, the diplomats spiked Mussolini's hopes by reaffirming their policy of sticking together, approving a hands-off policy in Spain, dodging the question of recognition of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, and loudly restating their loyalty to the League of Nations. Rumania's Foreign Minister Victor Antonescu went out of his way to state...
When the Fascist ax & rods drove the Lion of Judah from his Ethiopian home, Benito Mussolini was faced with grueling transport problems. Only means of carrying food, garrison troops and colonists from the Red Sea coast to Ethiopia's capital was by the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad, 494 mi. of rough, single-track, narrow-gauge roadbed over which crawled rattling, second-hand rolling stock to a terminus in French territory...
With the thoroughness that has marked all Italian road-building enterprises since the days of Gaius Julius Caesar, Mussolini massed 100,000 Italian workmen, organized them as units of the Fascist Militia to give them dignity in the eyes of Ethiopia's Semitic blackamoors, set them to work digging...
...stretch for 800 mi. from Asmara- linked to the Red Sea by a short Italian railroad-through Dessie to Addis Ababa. It was to be wide enough for four lines of traffic, durable enough to withstand big rains, which every summer since the days of Pharaoh have made Ethiopia a 100% impassable sea of mud. A second road 50 mi. long was to link Debarech in the country's deep interior and Gondar, an important town 25 mi. north of vital Lake Tana, which empties its waters into the Blue Nile, feeds British irrigation works in the Sudan...