Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago Ethiopia's deposed little Emperor Haile Selassie walked down the gangplank of the British cruiser Enterprise at Haifa. Behind him trotted his beloved white & tan papillon. Last week at Haifa the Conquered Lion of Judah walked up the gangplank of another British cruiser, the Capetown, which was to take him to Gibraltar. Thence he was expected to make his own way to London. Again the fuzzy little papillon pattered at his heels. Farther behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits...
...they do not realize that Mussolini, faced with the imminent collapse of his regime because of the condition of Italian industry, the disintegration of the middle class and the increasing unrest among workers reduced to less than a subsistence level, was virtually compelled to make this gamble for Ethiopia. With that land in his grasp Mussolini would have a place for his unemployed, he would have raw materials which Italy sorely needs and could borrow money from the world's bankers on the conquered country's undeveloped resources...
...Starhemberg secured the release of all the arrested Heimwehrmen by nightfall. Then last week came his chance to strike back. Cocky Prince von Starhemberg, on his own authority, sent off a telegram to Benito Mussolini in honor of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
...Roman answer was a prompt and emphatic No. Il Duce promised to give France and Britain permission to cooperate in Ethiopia with him but not through an open door...
Italy's conclusive victory in Ethiopia. British discouragement with the League of Nations and with Franco-British co operation last week (see p. 23) saddened M. Blum. In his Le Populaire he blew a valiant bugle blast of succor...