Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British loan to help Italy develop Ethiopia has never ceased to be "in the cards." It was predicted in London banking circles even while Anthony Eden was at his most fervent in Geneva, hurling the thunderbolts of Sanctions at defiant Benito Mussolini (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935 et seq). Last week this British loan was just around the corner, according to the most orthodox of London and Rome correspondents...
...Italy, he carved out for himself an Empire in Africa. He gambled on the weakness of the League of Nations and on Britain being unable to make a success of Sanctions. Finally, he gambled that the military experts were wrong. In all three gambles II Duce won, but Ethiopia is not a prize so rich that because he won it history must call him Caesar...
...Coolidge, big families, aviation, and the Emperor Nero, who he vowed was history's most admirable, character. Mr. Brisbane was fond of describing executions, took a detailed and almost professional interest in Nazi decapitations, seemed to derive great satisfaction from the thoroughness with which the Italians mopped up Ethiopia. Some people & things of which Mr. Brisbane did not approve: atheists, "half-baked" college boys, gamblers, "brain-trusters." In his editorials Mr. Brisbane long affected to despise professional pugilism, liked to point out that "a gorilla could lick them all." Actually he frequently attended big fights, once had Sport Editor...
...made II Duce's conquest of Ethiopia look like the proverbial theft of confections from an infant...
...Tokyo, meanwhile, Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita quietly slipped over Japan's recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, figuring that last week the British certainly would not notice. In Tokyo an individual carrying dynamite, a razor-edged spear and a fistful of petitions confessed: "For three days I have been try ing to kill the Premier." Simultaneously in Japanese political circles the more or less gagged Parliament was reported so restive at the risks the Cabinet is running with its pro-German and pro-Italian pacts (TIME. Dec. 7) and its seizure of Tsingtao, that Japan...