Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breaking the United States declared policy of neutrality, Harvard has contributed one Master of Arts to Ethiopia's King of Kings, it was learned yesterday...
...Addis Ababa warrior chiefs of the Noble Savage type bitterly and contemptuously complain, "Our Emperor is a businessman!" They should thank Ethiopia's stars. The astounding marvel is that Africa's unique Museum of Peoples has produced a businessman-with high-pressure publicity, compelling sales talk, the morals of a patent medicine advertisement, a grasp of both savage and diplomatic mentality, and finally with plenty of what Hollywood calls IT. The Emperor was "too smart" only once in 1935, when he tried by granting the Rickett Concession to Standard Oil to embroil the U. S. directly in Ethiopia...
Fortnight ago the Imperial Businessman had instructed Al Smith's publicity director, Josef Israels II. to tell the world that His Majesty was willing to settle on terms only slightly more generous to Ethiopia than those offered by The Deal of Hoare & Laval. He was willing to yield a great chunk of his empire in exchange for peace and a corridor to the Red Sea. The resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare and the tribulations of Premier Laval last week caused the Imperial Businessman to propose a completely New Deal. Ethiopia's new "basis for discussion," with which...
...Laval' Because of the difference between Britons and Frenchmen, the Laval Cabinet was not able to defend itself by the methods which the Baldwin Cabinet successfully employed. Both Cabinets had been pledged, as a whole and up to the hilt, to secure immediate peace between Italy and Ethiopia by means of negotiations taking their point of departure from The Deal of Hoare & Laval. In the House of Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that...
...remains open. . . . My will is not broken because it has proved a failure! . . . I shall persevere, whatever happens, in ardent, untiring action for peace." This was throwing down the gauntlet with a vengeance-a supreme act of po- litical courage. With an entire world of sympathy for poor little Ethiopia and the poor big League of Nations pullulating around him, Peasant Laval could almost be seen to dig his toes into the earthy al- ternatives of peace & war as he tenaciously clung to the thesis of The ("Dead") Deal: peace by negotiation now and. since Italy is today the stronger...