Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role of popular idealism, Empire unselfishness and British solicitude for the Negro underdog. Last week "Mr. Eden," as the League's spruce Captain insists on being called, kept the Committee of Thirteen, the Committee of Six and all the other League organs created to deal with Italy & Ethiopia busy heading up to a vote by the League Council which finally made official what only Italy denied-namely that Italy had invaded Ethiopia in violation of the Covenant-this to be followed by a vote of the League Assembly this week and consideration of what sanctions should be imposed...
...with stupefaction that we see the [British] people whose vast colonial empire includes one-fifth of the Earth appearing in opposition to young Italy's justifiable enterprise. . . . The League of Nations must not commit the folly of dealing with a civilized nation [Italy] and a barbarous nation [Ethiopia] on the same footing. . . . The risk must not be run of plunging the nations of the West into a European war as a result of what ought to be regarded as a purely colonial incident...
...World Series last week some 350 working newspapermen were actively engaged at Detroit's Navin Field. That night the momentous doings between the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago Cubs were swept from the nation's headlines to make way for War. In the heart of Ethiopia, in a city populated by 70,000 blackamoors, some 68 of the world's crack newsmen were feverishly at work reporting the biggest story since Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was snatched from his crib in Hopewell...
Chief news source from the Italian side is General Staff Headquarters at Asmara, Eritrea. Last week Italian troop movements from the north were well covered, but no U. S. correspondent ventured into the malarial jungles through which Italian armies were closing in on Ethiopia from the south and east...
Scoop of the week was scored by Webb Miller, United Press War Correspondent No. i, who got his news training in Chicago, remembers Mussolini as a fellow reporter at the Cannes Conference in 1921. Last week Newshawk Miller witnessed the start of the invasion of Ethiopia from the mountain-top observation post of skinny, goat-bearded General de Bono, sent an exclusive dispatch by wireless from Asmara (see p. 19). The message reached Rome before official dispatches, was relayed to London by telephone, thence by cable to New York and all U. P. wires...