Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respectful sympathy with His Majesty at this time." As the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin is now obviously in that pivotal position he assumes when he may or may not decide to switch the policy of His Majesty's Government completely around, as in the case of Italy & Ethiopia (TIME. Dec. 30), the House senses that "Old Sealed Lips" may again extricate himself penitent but unscathed. When Mr. Churchill tries to make himself heard, the House unexpectedly shows itself hostile to him for the first time in the crisis and he is virtually howled down...
...captain about the lore of the lands they passed. Passing Aden he thought of Rimbaud's tragic fate, and of how strange it was that the Frenchman should be the favorite poet of "a man so immaculate in thought, word and deed as Mr. Anthony Eden." Passing Ethiopia he thought of Conrad, who wrote a chapter of Almayer's Folly in a steamer named Adowa. His mind richly stored with literary and historical illustrations, everything that happened seemed to remind Bruce Lockhart of some celebrated incident...
...achieve a lasting peace, the curbing of munitions makers and limitation of capital investments in foreign enterprises must be accomplished. If Europe had seen fit to intervene by force in Italy's rape of Ethiopia, the United States might easily have been involved in the horrors of continual bloodshed, through the cries for protection from large financial companies, whose foreign investments were being threatened...
...motorcycle accident in England (TIME, May 27, 1935) is considered by many Moslem chiefs to be only a particularly clever British ruse. During the Ethiopian War, swarthy millions believed that Colonel Lawrence was alive in Addis Ababa advising Haile Selassie. Some think he is now in Western Ethiopia and will yet pluck victory for the Lion of Judah. Last week in London was auctioned off a packet of letters from Lawrence which were extracted from him by ingenious Ernest Thurtle, a Manhattan-born member of the House of Commons. In 1929 Mr. Thurtle rose in debate to expostulate against...
Biggest journalistic show put on by Webb Miller was his coverage of the Italian operations in Ethiopia. He walked his socks into bloody rags following the Italian troops, observed their surprising efficiency in mowing down the natives with bombers, tanks, field guns, gas and liquid fire. At the war's end Correspondent Miller concluded: "After studying the history of the partition of Africa by European powers I felt that the Italian invasion was in fact no less and no more reprehensible than the series of unprovoked aggressions and land grabs by which England, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Germany...