Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months Benito Mussolini has been mightily displeased with Britain for refusing to recognize fully his conquest of Ethiopia. Sullen antagonism flared into open hostility four days before the Coronation when II Duce, hoping that for once the pen might be mightier than the sword, issued orders and Italian newshawks in London, like a well-drilled Fascist Legion, route-marched for Rome and the entire Italian press clamped down a boycott on British news (TIME...
...Britain's sedate Bath, famed for its "waters," silk-bearded Haile Selassie, former Emperor of Ethiopia, has long been in exile working studiously on his memoirs. By last week the memoirs were nearly finished; arrangements had been made for their publication. Suddenly Publisher Michael Joseph announced that the Emperor had been "compelled" to forego publication on orders of his "political advisers." London wiseacres nodded significantly; it would be a great embarrassment to the Government to find public opinion being whipped up for an Emperor who might at any moment be declared officially throneless...
...Britain by treaty granted Egypt the status of an "Independent Sovereign State." excepting that the Sudan was entirely reserved to Britain, and her garrisons remained quartered throughout Egypt. It was actually Benito Mussolini-the Dictator buttered the Egyptians with many blandishments while he was making for Ethiopia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.)- who convinced the British that if they are to retain effective control of Egypt they must do so even more unobtrusively. Thus a new Anglo-Egyptian Treaty was signed by Premier Nahas and Mr. Anthony Eden on cream-colored parchment tied with blue ribbons at the British...
Birthday, Haile Selassie, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia, 46; in Bath, England...
...confused with Hubert Fauntleroy Julian. "The Black Eagle of Harlem" who also flew in Ethiopia. "Brown Condor'' Robinson went to Ethiopia as a newshawk, became Haile Selassie's personal pilot...