Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January a fleet white lieutenant general hurled his forces into Ethiopia. By April the capital had fallen, the Emperor had committed suicide. By June the last of the British troops had left Ethiopia, to the great satisfaction of their Sovereign, the late great Queen Victoria. The year...
...name is maligned, belittled, and, worst of all, ignored by some of my most abject, my congregation has spread over the whole world, which now without hyperbole can be said to lie at my feet, in my hands, under my thumb. My subjects rule Russia, Spain, Japan, Brazil, Italy, Ethiopia, Turkey, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States of America, not to mention other, less publicized nations. In all the schools my lies are taught, and the stupidity on which I thrive fostered. I expect a larger percentage of fawners upon me in the next generation than ever before...
...Treaty of 1906] His Majesty's Government recognized almost the whole of Ethiopia as pertaining to the Italian sphere of influence...
...vital British interests exist in Ethiopia or its neighborhood sufficient to oblige His Majesty's Government to resist a conquest of Ethiopia by Italy. Italian control over Ethiopia would from some viewpoints be advantageous for Britain. . . . From certain other viewpoints it would not. Speaking in a general sense, as far as local British interests are concerned, it is a matter of indifference whether Ethiopia remains independent or is absorbed by Italy...
...Rice has become "progressively disenchanted" with the theatre. It was his idea that out of the piteous plight of his down-at-heel mummers might arise the beginnings of a State Theatre. The chef d'oeuvre of Director Rice's regime was a dramatized newsreel called Ethiopia. When WPA headquarters in Washington learned about Ethiopia the production was hastily canceled as a "dramatization which may affect our international relations." Mr. Rice's disenchantment was complete. Crying that "freedom of expression" had been "stifled," he turned in his resignation...