Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hailed by the Nazis as the "first American woman" captured on the western front when she fell into enemy hands in Wallendorf, where she was working with a service organization. Daughter of the late millionaire rug maker John Sanford, in 1929 she explored the Mountains of the Moon, Ethiopia, with Sidney and Morris Legendre, Princeton athletes (1925) and sportsmen. She brought back wild Yaha hunting dogs, then married Sidney Legendre, now a Navy lieutenant commander, who last week was in Washington on leave from Pacific duty...
...population of 12,000,000 only about 5,000 children can now be accommodated in school. (Some 400 get Boy Scout training.) Ethiopia needs school buildings, it needs textbooks, but most of all it needs teachers...
...Ethiopian Minister to the U.S., His Excellency Blatta Ephrem Tewelde Medhen, thinks he can find the teachers. His idea is to import U.S. Negroes to replace the slaughtered teachers of Ethiopia. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People favors the proposal, points out that many U.S. Negroes have gone to Liberia to teach...
Teachers who go to Ethiopia will find a healthful climate (most of Ethiopia is a high plateau), a great affection for the U.S.-and a tough language, Amharic. But an attempt is under way to reduce" its 200 odd characters to 90, make typewriters feasible. English, taught in the few schools which Ethiopia still possesses, has already replaced French as a second language...
Last week a black gentleman turned up in a captured Fascist internment camp at Ferremonte, presented himself to the U.S. Lieut. Larry Garcia, C.O., then brought in another black gentleman: His Excellency Mangesha Woube, former Ethiopian Ambassador to Italy. Ever since Italy grabbed Ethiopia in 1935, the Ambassador and his aide had been comfortably interned in a village near Cosenza. Happy and well treated, they did not want to leave, but Lieut. Garcia had orders to forward them to the Middle East...