Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Mary has not yet dined with the King and Mrs. Simpson, but the Prime Minister and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin and Colonel and Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh have. In those circumstances, socialite Britons assumed and freely said last week in Mayfair that, as in the case of Ethiopia, British public opinion is now in course of a great change, and soon the comings and goings of Mrs. Simpson will be a popular topic in the popular press...
...radical-ridden as are France and Spain today. The years have dignified and tempered Benito Mussolini, and he has dignified and tempered the Italian people. As empires crumble other empires rise, and buoyant empire-builders invariably have clear consciences. Italians are not ashamed but proud and happy about Ethiopia. A significant sign of this is the sort of picture post cards they send each other. Today no cards in Italy are selling quite so fast as the joyous new series called "For you, Little Blackface!" These buoyant cards show a little white Italian boy in Fascist uniform kissing and being...
Thus the attitude of Italians toward conquered Ethiopia is Christian in its readiness to collaborate with and convert the heathen, and Roman in its drastic finality. The features of Benito Mussolini in the prime of his conquest are those of an Augustan Caesar. "It is our peace," he told his victorious legions, "Roman peace...
...Romana over Ethiopia has always been envisioned by the Dictator as something to be attained and consolidated in a matter of some 25 years, if indeed Ethiopian savages can be brought to civilized citizenship so soon. Last week Il Duce, with his plans and hopes for the new Italian Empire spreading decades ahead, indulged at Rome in no bombast or boasting, received with Augustan calm an amazing series of capitulations to Italy and to Fascism...
...Assembly can only "decide" so momentous a point by unanimity and to the last the Ethiopians resisted all pressure to make them join in voting to lift Sanctions. It was therefore necessary to "resolve" to lift Sanctions which could be done by a simple majority. In the final count Ethiopia alone voted to keep Sanctions on. Notwithstanding all South Africa's brave talk, she abstained from voting, as did Chile, Venezuela, and Panama. Every other League State represented in the Assembly last week (44) "resolved" to end Sanctions. This week the Sanctions Committee set July 15 as the official...