Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scholar-soldier (he spoke fluent Arabic and Hebrew) went on to military glory in World War II-in Ethiopia, where his raiders disrupted the Italian army, and in Burma, where his "Chindits" raided deep into Japanese-held territory. But Wingate and his beautiful young wife Lorna always dreamed of returning to Palestine...
...share would be 35%; other members would pay 65%. The U.S., which backed formation of WHO at San Francisco in 1945, has been supporting its interim commission in campaigns against the Egyptian cholera epidemic, malaria in Greece, tuberculosis (vaccinating 15,000,000 Europeans), medical neglect in China and Ethiopia...
...Ethiopia...
...slight, silver-haired spinster boarded a plane for Africa last week on a strange errand. Esther Cummings was off to visit Egypt, Ethiopia, the Sudan and the Belgian Congo, to put in practice a phonetic language-learning system she had been taught by her missionary father. With it, she thought she could get the hang of any native tongue in three or four days. Her mission (sponsored by the United and Southern Presbyterian Boards): to teach the natives how to teach their own languages to the missionaries...
...wreaths on graves. An American visitor was told in 1927: "The most wonderful thing about Mussolini is his loyalty to his King." The words were spoken by King Victor Emmanuel III; by that time a lot of Italians would have disagreed. When Il Duce declared war against Ethiopia, il piccolo swiftly calculated: "If we win I shall be King of Abyssinia; if we lose, I shall be King of Italy...