Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exile in Egypt.* The world could read the disgrace of the House of Savoy in the titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his thin, aging shoulders - Vittorio Emanuele (Ferdinand Maria Gennaro) III, King of Italy and Sardinia (1900-46) and Albania (1939-43); Emperor of Ethiopia (May 1939 November 1943); also King of Cyprus, of Jerusalem, of Armenia-ancient honors meaningless these many centuries...
...company of other savory persons who spend their time at it? During the '30s, when the Chinese Communists were the only group who persistently called for resistance to the Japanese invasion of northern China, or when Litvinoff was the only representative of a major power to speak for Ethiopia against Italy, or when the U.S.S.R. alone made an effort to defeat Franco in Spain? Or during the '40s, while the battles of Sevastopol and Stalingrad were being fought, while the U.S.S.R. was managing to save more of the Jewish civilians left in Europe than any other major power...
Died. Jack Nichols, 49, T.W.A.'s vice president in charge of international operations, onetime Congressman from Oklahoma (who headed a House committee investigating airplane crashes); in an Army 6-25 crash; on an airline survey flight from Asmara, Eritrea, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...
...that our friend Haile Selassie is back on his throne as Emperor of Ethiopia, Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Elect of God, Light of the World and Conquering Lion of Judah, he has renewed his TIME subscription and sent us a check for $38.90 so we can air mail the next 26 issues...
Between such ventures Wild Bill sandwiched jaunts abroad. As an observer in Ethiopia he had a tent next door to Marshal Badoglio's. In Spain he watched the Axis rehearse its new techniques...