Word: ethiopia
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Hollow Boast. Sitting nervously among the big nuclear powers were the eight "middlemen" of the U.N. disarmament meeting, the delegates of Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and Egypt. Many were utter novices in the murky technicalities of the cold war, but, being wooed by both East and West, they soon rallied under the leadership of India's V. K. Krishna ("The Unspeakable") Menon. Brazil's Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas, for example, criticized the Soviet Union for last fall's tests, went right ahead to urge the U.S. to cancel its own spring series...
Russia's Ambassador to the League of Nations, Maxim Litvinov, was outspoken in his opposition to the aggressive crimes against Ethiopia, Spain, the Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia. At first Litvinov, was only ignored; by 1940, Russia was officially ejected for an aggression in Finland. The meaning of appeasement, to Fleming showed a Western preference for Hitler over the Reds. Best of all would be, as then-Senator Harry Truman put it, "If we see that Germany is winning the war we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and in that...
Died. Empress Wolzero Menen of Ethiopia, 71, wife of Emperor Selassie, an amiable, portly matriarch who confined her interests largely to church (Coptic) and children (three) but once freed her husband from imprisonment by crashing down Abyssinia's Royal Palace gates with a whippet tank; after a long illness; in Addis Ababa...
...steaming around the world on an 80-day trip that will include a tiger shikar at the jungle estates of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar in the foothills of the Himalayas, a tour of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, side trips to Galle in Ceylon and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The fare...
...Ethiopia, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland will send students to the United States under the program for the first time next year. Only countries in Sub-Sahara Africa participate in the program...