Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carlton Park last Monday noon. In theory they were there to attend the League of Nations Council, discuss 19 different subjects. Actually they were there to try to do something about the continuance of Sanctions against Italy, now that Benito Mussolini had thrust the conquest and annexa tion of Ethiopia under their noses as an accomplished fact...
Even though Ethiopia is conquered and annexed, Italy has found out that the League is still able to show its intestinal fortitude; and has continued to apply the dreaded sanctions. Italian crowds may fill the air with cries of popular enthusism for Mussolini, Badoglio and the rest, but no one will deny that Italy's "little man" has had to pull in his belt several notches in the process. The sanctions have hit the country hard and the longer they are continued, the more desperate will the situation become...
...Italian adventure in Ethiopia was a direct threat to the lifeline of the British Empire: control of the Mediterranean. From the beginning British diplomacy held to the dogged belief that Benito Mussolini was bluffing. Loudly His Majesty's Government demanded Sanctions, only to discover that Italy would fight if the League attempted to enforce its orders...
...bearded chiefs at first said nothing at all. Finally they explained. There was only one effective army left in Ethiopia, that of Ras Nassibu, now fighting for its life against General Graziani's relentless advance on Harar. Tribes to the west were in as ugly a mood as those around Magdala. One after another the chiefs rose to tell how hopeless the situation was. There was nothing for the King of Kings to do but run for his life...
...early tea of Foreign Minister Anthony Eden last Sunday was the bitterest brew he had ever had to swallow. Read the dispatches any way he would, there was only one conclusion: Benito Mussolini had effectively smashed Ethiopia, wrecked the League of Nations and given British prestige an enormous black...