Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protestant missionaries followed and profited spiritually by the course of British Empire. Last week in Italy's Ethiopia, to some 75 Protestant men and women of God came tardy realization that not they but Roman Catholics will follow the course of Italian Empire. For some weeks, Protestant missionaries leaving Ethiopia have found it impossible to reenter. Last week occurred the first expulsions of missionaries, three U. S. and seven British. Upon these, semi-official abuse was heaped from Rome by the Giornale d'Italia which called them "either spy agents or exponents of that dangerous fanaticism of religious...
Already about its holy business in Ethiopia last week was a "Catholic Expeditionary Force," a mission headed by Archbishop Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, 49, lately of Rhodes. Under this able Franciscan, Vatican-trained native missionaries, white priests and what the Protestants called "swarms of nuns" were pitching in to "reclaim" 5,000,000 Copts to the Catholic faith, with which the Ethiopian Coptic Church was allied in early times and again for a few years in the 17th Century. From Vatican City came report that Italy and the Church's C. E. F. will follow the British empire-building...
...French report, Ethiopian indignation spreading in ever-widening ripples from Addis Ababa has generated native "passive resistance" on a large scale, with food now growing scarce in Italian garrison towns as Ethiopians stubbornly refuse to sell. Agents of the British Secret Service are doing all they can in Ethiopia to further and foment such native discontent, according to the French Secret Service reports, and Ethiopians are being incited to assassinate Italians...
Immediate cause of French-Italian friction over Ethiopia today, and it probably explains why Paris is indulging in such newsy official leaks, is the quarrel of the two countries over who owns the 15% of the stock in Ethiopia's only railway which Haile Selassie claims is owned by his "Ethiopian Government." Il Duce claims this stock for Italy, by right of conquest. Another 20% belongs to Italy undisputed, dating from the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 21, 1935). The French are the largest shareholders, holding 35%, but fear Italy has bought up nearly enough shares elsewhere...
Reported Correspondent Birchall: "There is a British tendency to attribute this development, always supposing that it is true, to two causes-disillusionment among Italians serving in Spain, many of whom believed they were going out to service in Ethiopia, and growing uneasiness among the Spaniards over the spread of Italian military, political and commercial influence in their country...