Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as Captain Marinetti embarked for Ethiopia with his two World War medals aglitter on his chest, his futurist brain was busy in the service of Fascism with "ideas for army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert...
Labor troubles and complaints against high British customs duties started in St. Vincent's Kingstown months ago, but caused no apprehension to Governor Grier and his staff until the outbreak of hostilities in Ethiopia gave black agitators a chance to whip up the beginnings of a fine race riot...
...conflict will soon be between Britain and Italy to divide the spoils of Ethiopia," cried the General. "The fidelity of Britain to the League is a sham...
Kings, however, were enough to turn the world spotlight briefly on one of the strangest figures in all Ethiopia, Lij Yasu (literally "Child of Jesus"), Emperor of Ethiopia from 1913-16, and for the past 14 years a jealously-guarded prisoner...
...death of his grandfather, the late great Menelik II, Lij Yasu seized the throne of Ethiopia, won a grudging allegiance from the most important Rases. Almost immediately he got into difficulties. None too ardent a Christian, he attempted to bolster his reign by organizing a federation of tributary Mohammedan States. He promptly found himself excommunicated by the Coptic Church, and shortly thereafter pushed from the throne by his aunt, Zauditu (Judith) with the aid of his cousin, wily Ras Tafari, the present Haile Selassie...