Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Kingdom and French Governments recommend that His Majesty the Emperor accept and will use their influence to secure the approval by the League of Nations of the formation in Southern Ethiopia of a zone of economic expansion and settlement reserved to Italy...
Benito Mussolini read: "The United Kingdom and French Governments will use their influence at Addis Ababa and Geneva to the end that the formation in Southern Ethiopia of a zone of economic expansion and settlement reserved to Italy should be accepted by His Majesty the Emperor and approved by the League of Nations...
...trap all ready for Emperor Haile Selassie waited to be sprung in case he should officially reject The Deal. It might then be eloquently said by Orator Laval that since Ethiopia had flouted and rejected "a peaceful solution conceived within the framework of the League," that affronted entity must turn the blade of Sanctions against Ethiopia and away from Italy in case Il Duce should accept the "good offices" of Britain and France within that framework. Into this trap last week the wily Ethiopian did not walk. Informally to correspondents His Majesty excoriated The Deal but he did not officially...
...Ethiopia's Emperor, advised by his Maine Yankee alter ego, Mr. Everett Colson, set the counter trap of demanding in a cablegram to Geneva that The Deal be scrutinized by the entire League Assembly in which minor nations have the majority, though they have never dared to make effective use of it. If once he could get 40 or even 30 little nations squawking. Emperor Haile Selassie knew they could be counted on to make the world's welkin ring in his favor...
...become a ''horizontal issue," not so much dividing the nations of Europe as internationally splitting social layers. Broadly speaking, the upper classes, from Scotland to the Golden Horn, and the governments of nations ruled by aristocrats and the bourgeoisie were for peace at the price of partitioning Ethiopia to make a Fascist holiday. Broadly speaking the proletariat, the lower classes and nations governed by Socialists (such as the Scandinavian kingdoms) were for delivering the death blow to original Fascism by means of Sanctions and then civilizing Ethiopia in a community spirit...