Word: ethiopia
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...leisurely state visit in the U.S.S.R., where he got the sort of red-carpet greeting ordinarily reserved for important allies, Ethiopia's wiry Emperor Haile Selassie, 67, took a sightseeing cruise down the Volga and through the Volga-Don Canal. At Stalingrad he took the helm of the steamship Arkady Geidar, gave a brief demonstration of seamanship to prove that the Lion of Judah is no landlubber...
...established pattern in his long, award-studded career. In 1929 he went to the Far East, where tension was already rising, came away feeling more sympathy toward the Japanese than the Chinese ("What I responded to, above all, was the charm and hospitality of the Japanese"). When Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Matthews enthusiastically supported the Italians, later wrote: "If you start from the premise that a lot of rascals are having a fight, it is not unnatural to want to see the victory of the rascal you like, and I liked the Italians during that scrimmage more than...
...Doria male line was broken last year with the death of Prince Filippo Andrea Doria-Pamphili-Landi, 71. The old prince was the only man in Rome who refused to put out a flag celebrating Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia, suffered 15 years' confinement under Mussolini, was Rome's first mayor after its liberation. He dreamed of opening his palace to the public, a task that his daughter, Princess Orietta, has now accomplished. Her husband, Britisher Frank Pogson, has traded his own name for Doria-Pamphili to carry on the noble line...
Married. Sahle Selassie, 28, youngest of three sons of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia; and Mahtsente Habte Mariam, 22; in Addis Ababa...
...walked through the exhibits examining national products, eager representatives flooded him with gifts: a hippopotamus-skin shield decorated with gold and silver (Ethiopia), a coffee table (Liberia), embroidered linen (Yugoslavia), cloisonne vase (Japan), Bible (Israel), a boxed edition of Don Quixote printed on and bound in cork (Spain), 100 cigars (Cuba). From Eelco van Klef-fens, the European Coal and Steel Community's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ike got a boxed paperweight made up of metal flags of Common Market nations. Though the other gifts were to be sent down to Washington, he said, "My son can carry this...