Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops and munitions from Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. The King of Kings was supposed to have turned down this proposal on the ground that he needed his troops in those two towns to protect foreigners from his civilian subjects. Next offer was to spare the road if Ethiopia promised to transport no munitions on it. Haile Selassie appeared to leap at this idea. Since the League lifted its arms embargo against Ethiopia, guns and ammunition have been coming into the black empire, not by way of the railroad from Djibouti but by motor truck to Harar, 125 miles from...
...Italian blood to secure space and raw materials for an overcrowded nation has looked like the Dictator's latest bluff. And a bluff is something that can be called. To Italians, who by this time know II Duce thoroughly, the hypothesis that he might be bluffing about Ethiopia has not to this day occurred. They can go as far back as 1919 and trace through his whole subsequent career as Dictator the same keynote of Empire-building he struck then...
...ultimate fulcrum on which Europe's future turns. This may be II Duce's unlucky 13th year, but with the hammer blows of 52 nations ringing out in an anvil chorus of sanctions last week, it was significant to the point of paradox that not Italy but Ethiopia was still being called "the underdog...
Mistake No. 1: In 1923 when Mussolini had been Premier but a few months, Italy joined France in sponsoring Ethiopia for membership in the League. This piece of flattery to a savage Empire was the opening move in long years of attempted peaceful, economic penetration of Ethiopia. Felicity touched its high when the present Emperor Haile Selassie visited King Vittorio Emanuele III in Rome and was showered with lavish gifts, including some small dogs which still yap at Addis Ababa. Forgotten today is the French reason for having initiated Ethiopia's blossoming into "nationhood" by joining the League: France...
Mistake No. 2: Although the history of Ethiopia teems with instances in which peaceful white penetrators have been duped, swindled, robbed of concessions and even murdered, Il Duce made the mistake of attempting to do 20th Century business with Ethiopia...