Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's insistence the meeting was called to discuss once more Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, to demand either immediate cessation of hostilities or stiffer Sanctions in retaliation for Italy's use of poison...
Hitching his chair a little nearer, President Huber suggested drawing up a "humanitarian accord between Italy and Ethiopia...
...been carrying on the war other than in the most humanitarian way possible-under the circumstances." Under the startled nose of President Huber the Italian Dictator napped an elaborately illustrated booklet showing the mutilated bodies of Italian road builders caught in a raid last February. "This is how Ethiopia treats her prison ers," thundered Benito Mussolini. "What reliance can we place in her guarantees?" Embarrassed President Huber had not even a chance to take up the charge that was outraging Britain last week. No sooner had blackshirt troops under ebullient Fascist Achille Starace touched Lake Tana, vital to Egypt...
...pontiffs. This week, when the rest of Christendom joyously concludes its 40-day Lenten fast, Rome and the Pope were to pass their quietest Easter in years. Because of Sanctions and European unrest, few tourists or pilgrims arrived in Rome for Holy Week. Because of the war in Ethiopia, the faithful who thronged St. Peter's Square on the off-chance the Holy Father might show himself were mostly women and children...
...RAPE OF AFRICA-Lamar Middleton-Smith & Haas ($3). Brief, graphic study in the European realpolitik ("60 years of duplicity and chicanery") that has partitioned Africa among six land-greedy nations; with the suggestion that the crisis over Ethiopia is only a beginning...