Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearest Italian bombs of the week thundered in the countryside a good 100 miles from Addis Ababa, but native morale was at lowest ebb thus far. The Most Reverend Kyrillos, Abuna of Ethiopia's Coptic Christian Church, hailed the peace deal proposed by Britain & France as "Words of God." To the Abuna the great feature of The Deal was one scarcely noticed out-side Ethiopia but showing the grasp of native mentality applied by Mr. Maurice Drummond Peterson, technical expert of Britain's Foreign Office, in concocting The Deal. It provides that Italy must evacuate, surrender and restore...
Throne, and at Dessye meanwhile His Majesty was the guest of Nebraska, California and Ohio Seventh Day Adventists who are firmly resolved that Ethiopia shall not yield. With their little organ pealing Rock of Ages, followed by What A Friend We Have In Jesus, the Emperor displayed unwavering courage, flayed The Deal to correspondents, and assented when his Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Everett Andrew Colson, a native of Warren, Me., advised from Addis Ababa that Ethiopia should not take upon herself the onus of rejecting the Franco-British proposal but should pass the buck to the League of Nations...
...leading U. S. Red Cross physician in Ethiopia, Dr. Robert William Hockman, who has made a persistent hobby of investigating dud Italian air bombs, buried a 970-pounder with the remark, "It's got my name on it, for after the war." Investigating what he took to be another dud at Daggah Bur last week, he was blown to atoms...
Famed as Harlem's pioneer in Ethiopia long before there was any war, "Colonel" Julian first came inescapably to the Emperor's attention by alighting with a devastating crash almost on top of His Majesty in what was then Ethiopia's only airplane (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). During the current struggle, Addis Ababa has seen Harlem's "Black Eagle" flapping about in Sam Browne belt and natty uniform but denied a commission in Ethiopia's Imperial Air Force. He was several times kindly received by Haile Selassie, once to deny hotly that Italians had hired...
...Emperor is still my friend," cried Julian last week, "but as for the other Ethiopians-Bah! You may say that I have come to the unanimous conclusion that Ethiopia does not need or deserve help...