Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopia, after the great Italian victory of Marshal Badoglio on the North Front (TIME, Feb. 24), the routed Ethiopian army of Ras Mulugheta was retreating in moderately good order across Tigre Province last week, but the fate of stragglers was hard...
...gist of the report by Sir John Maffey & experts was that absolutely no occasion would exist for filling the Mediterranean with British forces, even in the event of successful conquest by Italy of Ethiopia. In the dry and dispassionate words of Sir John Maffey & Experts: "From the viewpoint of imperial defense an independent Ethiopia is preferable to an Italian Ethiopia but the threat to British interests seems very remote and would become real only in the event of war between Britain and Italy, which is an eventuality that presently seems very improbable...
...chief British interest in Ethiopia is Lake Tana and the Nile Basin. These represent also an interest of Egypt, which His Majesty's Government are bound to protect. In the event that Ethiopia should disappear as an independent State, His Majesty's Government should seek to secure territorial control over Lake Tana and an adequate corridor joining this lake to the Sudan...
...United Kingdom after its rigors had been movingly conjured up by a Labor M. P. who climaxed, "So I asked my eldest boy about this homework only this morning and he said, 'Father, the House of Commons should consider this slavery at home instead of the slavery in Ethiopia!'" ¶Raised a question so delicate that Foreign Minister Anthony Eden did not trust himself to reply verbally. The question: Is there any international convention which His Majesty's Government could invoke to stop the Argentine Republic from issuing stamps on which the "British" Falkland Islands are described...
...spare the time from such other headaches as Ethiopia and Nazis, something should be done to help China by maintaining "the open door." China has received the heaviest solar-plexus wallop to her economy not from Japan but from the Pittman "Silver Bloc" in Congress, whose success in jacking up President Roosevelt to jack up the price of silver forced China's currency off the silver standard and dislocated the affairs of 400,000,000 Chinese. Last week's keynote caused the Japanese Foreign Office's tart spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau to snort: "Senator Pittman...