Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What are we to do? We cannot save a drop of blood in Ethiopia. We cannot restore the old Government. We would merely extend the conflict. We would fight not for peace but for revenge...
...unofficial advice on British foreign policy. It is generally led by men who have served in other Cabinets who enjoy talking off the record. Last week this strange political organism assembled privately in a House of Commons committee room to discuss the aftermath of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Even the Parliamentary innocents who revolted so violently last December against the Hoare-Laval Deal to end the Ethiopian War were convinced that there was just one thing for the British lion to do: swallow its pride, lick its wounds and try to save what was left of the League...
...valor against the black mobs of Addis Ababa, Premier Albert Sarraut's Cabinet last week voted to promote France's Minister to Ethiopia Paul Bodard from a Chevalier to a Commander of the Legion of Honor. Simultaneously Mme Bodard was made a Chevalier. These non-political honors went to the Bodards for corralling 2,000 frightened whites in the French legation in Addis Ababa...
Otherwise France devoted itself last week to a screaming case of jitters. Bogey Man No. 1 was Benito Mussolini who until last week France had always assumed would be "reasonable." Highly unreasonable to Paris sounded the Italian's speech proposing to take care of Ethiopia all by himself. Therefore French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin made haste to post off to Rome the sharpest note he had yet sent Benito Mussolini...
This message severely reminded Italy of the 1906 treaty guaranteeing French rights in Ethiopia, notably the French railroad from Addis Ababa to Djibouti in French Somaliland.* Last week Italian soldiers were swarming all over this tidy French investment, giving orders to indignantly vociferous French engineers (see p. 23). Did Italy propose, M. Flandin asked, to maintain the "open door" in Ethiopia as France has done in French Morocco...