Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly one hour after the League Assembly had voted to lift Sanctions from Italy and refuse succor to Ethiopia, Herr Greiser marched into a session of the League Council and with calculated insolence of manner addressed in German the luckless Council President, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden whose handsome young face was soon beet-red. In unprintably coarse language Herr Greiser attacked Mr. Lester to his face on personal grounds and demanded a free hand in Danzig for Nazis to administer their brand of "law and order...
...morning last week young British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, his brow worry-puckered, argued and pleaded with dusky members of Haile Selassie's entourage, trying to persuade them to advise His Majesty not to inconvenience the Great Powers by personally arising in the League Assembly to air Ethiopia's wrongs. ''Tell your Emperor that no head of a State has ever addressed the League-it would be unprecedented!" cried young Tony Eden with his British reverence for precedent. "The Emperor really must not appear. It would compromise his imperial dignity...
Unsuitable for wear in Ethiopia is the Fascist black shirt which absorbs heat rather than reflecting it. Last week young Marshal Graziani, energetic new Viceroy of Ethiopia, already had native moppets of tenderest age drilling as a pickaninny Balilla (see cut). From Rome arrived brand-new khaki uniforms for Ethiopian "Sons of the Wolf" to be worn with fetching green scarfs...
Freshly appropriated by Il Duce's order is $8,000,000 to build as rapidly as possible seven great arterial roads linking Addis Ababa for trade and strategic purposes with all key cities of the Empire. Merged under the Viceregal Government with Ethiopia are the onetime Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland...
...Jews in Europe but we can't see why we should be the victims of their colonial expansion. . . . Italian propaganda in Palestine probably exists to some extent but I see no reason why we should exchange British rule for Italian. On the contrary, the Italian occupation of Ethiopia is a threat against the two independent states on the Arabian peninsula: Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Mussolini has no chance of gaining followers among the Arabians; he has instead contributed to the speedy growth of the Pan-Arab movement...