Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...12th century Genoa, owner (in Rome's Palazzo Doria) of one of the world's most celebrated private galleries (included: Velásquez' portrait of an earlier Pamphilj, Pope Innocent X); of arteriosclerosis; in Rome. A bitter antiFascist, who condemned Mussolini's war on Ethiopia, he suffered 15 years of mistreatment by Fascists, became wartime "underground governor" of Rome and, appointed by the Allies, the city's first postwar mayor...
...delegates came from 21 African countries, from French, English, Belgian and Portuguese colonies, from such independent states as Ghana, Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia and the Union of South Africa. They included Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Dutch Reformed and "soldiers" of the Salvation Army. The ten days they spent together aired out many a mind that had been shut up in tribal parochialism. Said Anglican Archdeacon Erisa K. Masaba: "We in Uganda don't accept the Christians from our neighboring territory of Kenya as real Christians. For me it is a surprise to see members of different churches worshiping together...
Retirement in Triumph. Costantini's greatest coup was brought off in 1936, when he copped a copy of a highly confidential report of the British government, which declared that "no vital British interests exist in Ethiopia which would impose on His Majesty's government the necessity to resist by force the Italian occupation." Mussolini ordered the report printed in his official Giornale d'ltalia. There was consternation in Whitehall. But Whitehall's new vigilance did not uncover Costantini himself, who stayed on in the embassy, unsuspected, performing his tasks for another year before retiring...
...afterward, "of fulfillment of the gracious pledge so often reiterated by us, that our beloved people are to share in the responsibility of the public affairs of our government." Facing him in the parliamentary chamber were 210 representatives of the people, victors in the first election ever held in Ethiopia's 3,000-year history of autocratic rule...
Still as uncertain as new schoolboys of the exact nature of their function, the newly elected legislators of Ethiopia were unlikely to criticize the Emperor's activities very strongly for some time to come. The constitution makes the Cabinet responsible not to them but to the Emperor, gives him the power to appoint every member of the Senate. But thanks to Haile Selassie, they were there in the Parliament, empowered and even encouraged to voice the will of their constituents. For the people of Ethiopia, it was a major improvement on the past, when the only way to make...