Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalism graduate of Northwestern University, got his first newspaper job in the New East in 1935 just after Il Duce's grab at Ethiopia. TIME's Foreign News editor found him there in 1938, when he already had a reputation as one of the best informed newspapermen in the area. Zinder has been working for TIME ever since, digging out the news for us in the deserts of Arabia and the ports of Syria, in Cyprus, Trans-Jordania, Palestine, Turkey, Irak, Iran, Egypt, and now Libya...
Renner's Africa has four independent nations: tiny Liberia, Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia ("should be protected by being completely surrounded by British territory"). The rest of the continent is divided among Germany. France and Britain-with Germany getting France's Gabon, Belgium's Congo, Portugal's Angola...
Mussolini's "Cratoplutes." A "sadder and wiser" Italy than the one he had known when he marched with Italian troops in Ethiopia was what New York Timesman Herbert Matthews left behind. He minimized the chance of revolt in Italy, but found it "difficult to conceive of a Government with less popular consent than Fascism has today...
...authority of the Belgian Government in London, which is one of the signatories of the Declaration of United Nations. ... All the resources of the Belgian Congo are contributed to the war effort of the Allies. Furthermore last year Belgian Colonial troops have taken part in the reconquest of Ethiopia...
...matter of fact, the Belgian Congo is at war, under the general direction of the Belgian Government in Exile in London, with the Axis, and so much so that Belgian Congo forces have helped the British in every possible manner to conquer Ethiopia, taking prisoner many thousands of Italian troops and some Italian generals. Moreover, only a few days ago, the Governor General of the Belgian Congo urged Congo production of raw materials to be speeded up to such an extent that, very soon, that production will make good some of the losses sustained by the Allies in the South...