Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another feature, called Wings Over Ethiopia, is the only really fascinating travelogue we've ever seen. It covers everything from the debtors' prison in Addis Ababa to a tribe out in the back country where ever wife has five lovers and the babies are ornamented with razor wounds...
...appearance of this phrase in a speech by Squire Baldwin was a leading development. Though some excited citizens still put the issue to themselves in terms of the necessity of preserving Ethiopian independence at all costs, many a British citizen was commencing to ask himself last week why Ethiopia must be aided to remain savage and backward. Not entirely for fun London's august Times printed in full a very long letter from George Bernard Shaw. Excerpts...
...Italy is making roads through Ethiopia with the avowed intention of colonizing the country. The Danakils are doing their utmost to stop the process by killing the road makers and their guards. The League of Nations is being strongly urged by Mr. Eden to assist the Danakils in killing the Italians with the object of stopping the road making and forcing Italy to retire discomfited, leaving the primitive tribesmen triumphant over European civilization...
...Majesty's Government: "Sanctions will not stop the advance of Mussolini's army, not by one hour! They will not save one Ethiopian life. Sanctions will not prevent guns and ammunition, or any war material or troops, from passing from Italy to reinforce the attack on Ethiopia. They are passing freely now. We are supplying Italy, through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in which we are, I think, the largest shareholders, now with the oil used in her bombing airplanes! "I saw the Ethiopian Minister today, and it was a very pleasant conversation I had. These bombing airplanes...
Under drastic orders from Il Duce not to "go native" in Ethiopia are Italian soldiers. Last week the war brides and wives they left behind received "Ten Commandments," signed not by the Dictator, but by "Benedetta," announced to be the pen name of the wife of a prominent Fascist. Commanded Benedetta...