Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Emperor Haile Selassie the populace of Ethiopia were armed almost to a man. The Italians have disarmed almost every native in Addis Ababa. Therefore when blackshirt squads of Fascist militia proceeded after the bombing to retaliate by shooting up the town, its disarmed, comparatively helpless citizens, accustomed always to giving as good as they got, became bitterly incensed at the white men's behaving in a manner so "unfair"- even if the Fascists were striking back because their Viceroy had 38 slugs...
Mussolini, who was denounced by im plication recently by the Archbishop of Canterbury for "Italian atrocities in Ethiopia," last week was directly attacked by the Dean of Winchester, to the alarm of the British Foreign Office which took pains to intimate that monkeying with Mussolini is risky work for the United Kingdom's State Church. At London, in the presence of Emperor Haile Selassie, a solemn Anglican service for native Ethio pian war dead climaxed when the Dean of Winchester said the Italian people ''have been seized by a spirit of evil of a superhuman nature...
...Ethiopia's Minister to Great Britain charged that among natives executed at Addis Ababa after the bomb attempt on the Italian Viceroy (TIME, March 1) were two of his sons and a son of another Ethiopian Minister: ''These three were among the fine flowers of Ethiopia's enlightened intellectuals...
...canceled at Rome last week the Italian delegation headed by Crown Prince Umberto which was to have represented His Majesty at the British Coronation. Reason: Vittorio Emanuele III and his subjects, including Il Duce, are united in considering His Majesty not only King of Italy but also Emperor of Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure of a snub in Rome for British Ambassador Sir Eric...
Beyond that all he knew was that one morning he packed his kit in Ethiopia under the impression that he was to be sent back to Italy, found himself a few weeks later disembarking from an Italian transport at Cadiz, officially a member of Spain's Foreign Legion. Last week Fortunato Manure was one of some 200 Italians, ranging in rank from privates up to a Lieutenant-Colonel, who were captured by Madrid's defenders in five days of furious strife which badly broke the point of the so-called "Italian Spearhead" thrusting at Madrid from the northeast...