Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strategically that camping ground was of more value to Italy than the just-captured muddy little town behind it, for it was a practical airplane landing field, one of the few in Ethiopia, and a priceless advance base for Italian bombers and scouting planes...
...Dessye, Ethiopia's main headquarters for its northern defense forces, is 150 miles from Makale and half way to Addis Ababa. There until last week stayed thin-faced big-eyed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan at the head of 10,000 well equipped warriors. Suddenly he stepped from an airplane at Addis Ababa, to be warmly greeted by his father the Emperor and hustled off to the palace. There he would rule, courtiers said, on behalf of Haile Selassie when and if the Emperor goes to the front...
Getting clown to brass tacks in Harar last week, New York Times's candid Harold Denny cabled: "The exodus of disappointed 'war correspondents' and camera men from Ethiopia is now well under way after one of the greatest and most expensive flops in journalistic and newsreel history. . . . The Ethiopians have an unmatched talent for procrastination-they dislike doing anything today which possibly can be put off. "The result has been that a hundred or more correspondents and camera men are gnawing their fingernails at Addis Ababa, Harar and Dire Dawa knowing less about the fighting they...
...trying to consummate a deal on Ethiopia shrewd French Premier Pierre ("Honest Broker") Laval began with sub rosa dickering which the British Government would not acknowledge, progressed by getting the League to give Britain and France a mandate to make the deal respectable (TIME, Nov. 11) and last week was having pressure exerted at Addis Ababa. For the first time Ethiopian statesmen close to the Emperor discussed openly with correspondents this hypothesis: Suppose Emperor Haile Selassie should keep his rich native Province of Harrar but give up the Province of Ogaden in which the original Ualual Incident occurred, the fruitful...
Even a few days before, mention of any such deal had provoked the Ethiopian Foreign Office to blasts of scorn. Last week the feudal Rases of Ethiopia were being sounded by Emperor Haile Selassie's confidential agents. Some of them reacted by demanding that His Majesty at once take the field and fight, as Ethiopian sovereigns always did in days of old. Instead, the Emperor sent Arks of the Covenant to encourage his troops (see p. 16) and talked of making only brief dashes to & from the front...