Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London newspapers last week began carrying items of a sort which they had omitted until His Majesty's Government recently began to take a line more friendly to Italy. Few weeks ago "Italian atrocities in Ethiopia" were big journalistic stuff, especially when they were supposed to have been committed against the Red Cross. Last week equally big news in England was eye-witness testimony by Ebenezer Ralph Hooper, M. D., a member of the American Ambulance Mission in Ethiopia. Speaking at Leeds, terse Dr. Hooper said that Benito Mussolini had been right in claiming that the Ethiopian high command...
...British Cabinet's foreign policy. It was proper for him to do so, since British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's prestige had last week reached lowest ebb. Sir Samuel was called back into the Cabinet fortnight ago as "The Man Who Was Right'' about Ethiopia (TIME, June 15). By implication Mr. Eden must have been, if not wrong, at least somewhat dim. Last week First Lord Hoare spoke at Cambridge in these vigorous terms...
Having conquered Ethiopia, mighty Marshal Pietro Badoglio last week joined the Fascist Party...
...Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia, had just upped Marshal Badoglio from the administrative office of Viceroy of Ethiopia to the aristocratic, hereditary dignity of Duke of Addis Ababa. It was time for the rumors that at heart Marshal Badoglio was anti-Fascist to be scotched last week, and scotched they were. Amid regal pomp the Duke of Addis Ababa drove to the Secretariat of the Fascist Party, majestically ascended its marble stair and received a card enrolling him as a member of the Fascist Party. Grizzled new Member Badoglio then barked a loud, soldierly...
...Duke was supposed to have returned to Italy primarily for kidney-stone treatment. Last week's developments explained further. Named new Viceroy of Ethiopia, to do the exhausting job of "civilizing" one of the most recalcitrant native peoples on the globe, was bristling Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, 53. The 64-year-old Duke of Addis Ababa resumed in Italy his post of Chief of the General Staff...