Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscurity and carried his country with him up & up into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world. But for the hidden astuteness of this man, there would not now be the possibility of another world war arising out of idealism generated around the League of Nations in behalf of Ethiopia. But for His Majesty Haile Selassie the year 1935 would have been a distinctly different year. If by some unhappy chance the Italo-Ethiopian war should now spread into a world conflagration. Power of Trinity I, the King of Kings, the Conquering Lion of Judah, will have a place...
Above all, Haile Selassie has created a general, warm and blind sympathy for uncivilized Ethiopia throughout civilized Christendom. In the wake of the world's grandiose Depression, with millions of white men uncertain as to the benefits of civilization, 1935 produced a peculiar Spirit of the Year in which it was felt to be a crying shame that the Machine Age seemed about to intrude upon Africa's last free, unscathed and simple people. They were ipso facto Noble Savages, and the noblest Ethiopian of them all naturally emerged as Man of the Year...
...only become highly sympathetic, but they also gave the further impression that if they won the election they would bend every effort to securing a major triumph for Geneva by contriving ''through the League of Nations" to main tain the independence and territorial integrity of Ethiopia. Strong was the popular impression that no solution which did not remove the last Italian soldier from Ethiopian soil would be countenanced by His Majesty's Government...
...election was won. Shortly afterward "The Deal" to make peace by dismembering Ethiopia was agreed to in Paris by British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 16). It was approved by the entire Baldwin Cabinet. It was officially presented at Geneva by the British Minister for League of Nations Affairs, Anthony Eden. It was formally delivered to the Italian Government and to the Ethiopian Government by the chiefs of the French and British diplomatic missions, together with urgent advice that it be accepted by Haile Selassie and Benito Mussolini. It was published as a White Paper with the imprimatur...
...Deal was concluded only after weeks of British resistance and only after Italian threats to attack British war boats in the Mediterranean were common knowledge. In consenting to the dismemberment of Ethiopia while being threatened by Mussolini, were His Majesty's Government cowards...