Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church yard at Aksum, Ethiopia a richly clad priest strolled beneath the drooping leaves of eucalyptus trees. Guardians of the sacred room are watching anxiously from their narrow windows in the cathedral. For with the priest is an American, a reporter. and the two are walking back and forth. The reporter has been talking at length and finally ends with something liek this: "But a look won't scare them away. Can't you understand what it means for you, for my newspaper, for the world if these sacred relics which you say the Queen of Sheba brought from solomon...
Thus warned, the Nobel Committee considered another Carl, Sweden's Prince Carl, who had been active in Swedish Red Cross work during the World War in Siberia and lately in Ethiopia. This stopgap fell through when a clerk discovered that Prince Carl's name had been submitted a few days after the deadline. Suddenly the Committee realized it was not obliged to name anybody, having in the past skipped four War years and four years since. Lamely last week it announced there would be no 1935 Nobel Peace Prize award because "with war raging in Africa, Anglo-Italian...
...been able to make more than a roulette player's cast on the world's battlefields for the supreme prize of Power. The classic roulette odds of 36 to 1 approximately represented Italy's chance to conquer and to hold against other players, all of Ethiopia, even before sanctions were declared. But it is possible to win heavily at roulette...
...from London again crossed last week minor Croupier Maurice Peterson, chief of the Ethiopian section of the British Foreign Office, to dicker further with his French colleague, minor Croupier Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. They have been in substantial agreement for weeks on a formula of "honorable" division of Ethiopia "within the framework of the League of Nations." Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, however, is for keeping the ball of sanctions going a while longer and Dictator-Mussolini is all for faster spinning of the wheel by his new war chief. Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...protect but to save, last week, Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes made nationwide headlines as Petroleum Administrator with a strong appeal that all exports of petroleum to the combatants in Ethiopia be barred. Mr. Ickes crossed his fingers by reminding reporters that he has "no authority at all" to regulate the export...