Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus last week Foreign Under Secretary Richard Kidston Law* explained to BBC listeners why the British Government had finally got round to restoring the independence of Ethiopia...
...permission to fly over his country. The management of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway and the wireless station at Addis Ababa will be in the hands of the Commander in Chief of the British Army in Africa. The Army also received the right to use all Italian property in Ethiopia (assessed at $3 20,000,000-$360,000,000) without payment. To help guide the Negus' footsteps, British political advisers as well as a military mission will be appointed...
Parliament greeted the pact with solemn rejoicing. In the House of Lords Viscount Cecil of Chelwood called it an "extremely vivid contrast to the German Government's 'New Order.' " Only a few of the Lords had reservations about Ethiopia's new freedom. Though Anthony Eden had assured the House of Commons that Haile Selassie had promised to abolish slavery just as soon as possible, some of their Lordships wanted to know why the pact was signed before the emancipation was a fact...
These facts seem to indicate that perhaps the oft-repeated remarks about the evil War Profiteer might be brought out from beneath their bushels. Of course they do more properly belong to an era of bright peace, like the middle thirties when only Ethiopia and China were invaded. But even today they might be very lightly suggested, without sounding too much like the rantings of a pacifist from the Left. If the information sifting through from Washington is to be believed, the discussion of the evils of war profiteering might have stopped but the profits have not. It is interesting...
...mule has served on both sides during World War II. The Italians, who used to buy 1,000 U.S. mules a year, used the beast constantly in Ethiopia, honored it afterward with a monument in a park in Rome. The Germans also favor the U.S. mule, and wherever their 800,000 horses go, the pack mule goes too. The British Army in India adds hundreds of U.S. mules every year to its thousands already in service...