Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jewelry shop in the Kingdom to buy new gold rings for some 250 lire each ($20) to drop into the urns while they hide away their own golden treasures and wear the ugly iron of patriotism. Eight years ago at the watering place of Agnano, the present Emperor of Ethiopia gave a gold ring to his spinster bath attendant. Adele Chierchia, saying, "Let this be your wedding ring when you marry." Still a spinster and still a bathwoman, Adele dropped Haile Selassie's ring last week into one of Benito Mussolini's urns...
Useless Sympathy, With such views current in the House of Commons, the future course of His Majesty's Government regarding Ethiopia seemed certain to take its bearings from basic factors which have not changed in the slightest because of the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare. These factors he ably set forth...
...Hoare-Laval Deal to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia, mainly at the expense of Ethiopia but leaving the greater and by far the richest portion of the Empire intact (TIME, Dec. 23), Sir Samuel approached not apologetically but with a brisk question as to whether the House knew what other and spontaneous proposals for peace have in fact been made by the Emperor, the Dictator and the League. Ignorance was obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months...
...especially gilded to blend with the antique décor. For draping the chamber with suitable hangings favored drapers got at least $2,000. Since there was much nose-holding at these costs, and since there was already much more nose-holding at the offer of nearly half of Ethiopia by His Majesty's Government to Fascist Mussolini...
...chairman of the meeting the Earl of Derby, close friend of King George, made what many considered a tactful allusion to world-wide indignation aroused by the impression that His Majesty's Government and perhaps His Majesty, as well, favor making peace by dismembering Ethiopia. Rumbled Derby: "The more people who come to this country to see us as we are and not as we are painted, the better it will be for the peace of the world and the easier for our diplomats and politicians to keep peace...