Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Success with Spain. The same "Tammany" forces which failed to exclude Ethiopia last week had been simultaneously applying pressure to prevent the Madrid Cabinet from formally demanding that the League Assembly take action about the munitions now reaching Spain's White Armies contrary to the declared embargo of the Great Powers (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Possibly because Madrid is now also beginning to get such munitions, Geneva success was achieved by those putting the pinch on Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo. While he could not be persuaded to keep quiet, his empurpled and highflown Latin oration...
...assassination of Monsieur Bartou in 1934 he believes ruined France's foreign policy, which Bartou aimed to improve by an alliance with Russia and an agreement with Mussolini. France's present bad position he blamed on Pierre Laval, who gave Mussolini a free hand in Ethiopia and frustrated any action of the league. The league was thus reduced to political impotence so that France lost all its support. By letting Mussolini go ahead in Ethiopia, Laval strengthened Fascism immeasurably, Professor Langer said, and also lost the support on England...
Whether written or unwritten it is almost certain that Hitler and Mussolini have some sort of an agreement, he averred, by which Hitler was able to move into the Rhineland while Mussolini attacked Ethiopia, and now the two are unquestionably sending supplies through Fascist Portugal to the rebels in Spain, especially airplanes, which have become the deciding factor in the conflict...
Finally Leon Blum reaffirmed those principles which Benito Mussolini, with his conquest of Ethiopia, and Japan, with her seizure of Manchukuo, have tried to make seem old-fashioned and even silly. "French Peace supposes for all nations Liberty for self-determination!" cried Orator Blum. "It supposes Equality of right between States, big or little, as between individuals. It supposes Fraternity, that is to say, progressive elimination of war, solidarity against an aggressor and material and moral disarmament...
...eleven years Dr. Heiser was Director of Public Health in the Philippines. Resigning to become Director for the East of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled through Europe and Asia, lived in Ethiopia, Japan, Siam, Australia, the South Sea Islands. Russia. His professional duties ranged from establishing a leper colony in the Philippines to conducting a colleague on a round-the-world tour in the interest of the fight against tuberculosis, from persuading Haile Selassie to cooperate in the struggle against yellow fever to leading a campaign against polished rice in the South Seas. Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal...