Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France's Foreign Minister, Laval instigated the Franco-Soviet Pact of 1935 which brought French businessmen a billion francs in contracts. Sixteen months in advance he told Mussolini it would be all right to rape Ethiopia, and later set his seal on the deed in the Hoare-Laval Pact with Britain which sanctioned Ethiopia's enslavement...
...exchange.) Italy knew better than to make such a demand-she was to get back more prisoners than she gave up. Off to Alexandria sailed 66 stricken British soldiers, 63 medical personnel captured in Greece; to Italy went 250 sick and wounded Italians captured in Ethiopia and East Africa...
Died. Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, 43, ex-Governor General of Italian East Africa and Viceroy of Ethiopia; of tuberculosis; in Kenya Colony, East Africa. Mussolini's most ardent supporter in the House of Savoy, the tall, slim "Fascist Duke" was believed by many to have been given his African job as grooming for the Italian throne. But in Ethiopia he lost all but 17,000 of his 100,000 troops, surrendered to the British...
...into a sheik's tent in the [British-controlled] Jordan valley and have one's coffee served by a black slave. Don't let us be too virtuous about these things." What worried Lord Wedgwood was the fact Britain had not seized Italian property in Ethiopia outright...
...voice questioned whether Ethiopia had really been freed. Said Lord Davies carefully: "The agreement . . . strikes some as a hard bargain. ... So long as Abyssinia is bound down by some of the clauses, it cannot be described as free and independent...