Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swing around France's North African possessions to promote "empire solidarity," France's East African colonists in French Somaliland were suddenly thrown into a panic by reports that 80,000 Italian troops were about to march over the border from Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia) and seize the country. As long as 18 months ago, Paris colonial officials noted that detachments of Il Duce's troops had occupied areas on what was probably the French side of the ill-defined French Somaliland-Italian East African border. For weeks the fascist radio station at Addis...
After 9,000 alarmed Somalis, Arabs and Indians paraded the streets of sweltering Djibouti with banners declaring We Don't Want to Suffer the Same Fate as Ethiopia the French Navy Ministry dispatched two warships to the scene. The Colonial Ministry sent a detachment of 650 Senegalese sharpshooters from Marseille to strengthen the little Somaliland garrison of 1,500 colonials...
...Most of the French demonstrators, and many of the Italians in private, refused to take seriously Premier Mussolini's "unofficial" campaign for French lands. In Paris some 6,000 non-serious Sorbonne students paraded the streets with placards demanding "We want Vesuvius! We want Venice! Ethiopia for the Negus!" (see map). At the quiet Alsatian border town of Strasbourg, students answered Italy's demands with shouts of "We want Sicily! We want Sardinia!" and in Algiers, capital of the French colony which adjoins Tunisia, hundreds of natives joined university students and chanted "Sicily and Sardinia for France-Italy...
...that France can be bluffed into handing over Tunisia without a fight, much less into handing over Corsica, or Nice or Savoy, is trying mainly to get or keep other things. Il Duce in the past few weeks has already got France and Britain to recognize his conquest of Ethiopia. That is in the bag, and it was a big part of the original Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935, et seq.). There are also the beautiful Spanish Isles, Majorca and Iviza, now effectively occupied by Mussolini's airmen. And there was also a now almost forgotten Mussolini...
...Paris Prime Minister Chamberlain and Premier Daladier agreed to open their colonies at once to 10,000 German Jews apiece. In both London and Paris, banking houses were ready to lend to help the Jews get started there, in Ethiopia or elsewhere, and they wanted U. S. bankers to chip in. The U. S. Department of Labor was considering the possibility of hypothecating its German-Austrian immigration quota for the next three years to admit up to 81,000 refugees into the country. Secretary of the Interior Ickes suggested that as his Matanuska colony of dust-bowl refugees grew...