Word: ethiopia
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...Portugal's Congo, where every native has had his "Santu" or Christian name since the 16th Century, Dom Pedro V was once a monarch as absolute in his way as Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. A Portuguese army had helped enthrone him, and for 30 years they let him reign supreme over his subjects. Then in 1884 Europe began its mad scramble for Africa. Portugal's empire builders sent out their own resident governor, and Pedro and all his kind became mere pensioners. Last week, with 700 other pilgrims from Portugal's now tatterdemalion empire, another King...
...sophomores have left Cambridge on the first leg of an odyssey which will eventually take them to Kenya Colony in Central Africa, via the Mediterranean and Ethiopia...
...Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky raised mild hopes by pledging Soviet determination "to consolidate the work of this conference, however different our views." The commissions made some headway on boundaries and reparations. On the thorny subject of reparations they agreed: from Italy, $325 million to Russia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Ethiopia; from Hungary and Rumania each, $300 million to Russia, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia; from Bulgaria, $125 million to Greece and Yugoslavia; from Finland, $300 million to Russia. The principle of freedom of the Danube was voted, 8-to-5, but Russia & friends (who control most of the river) voted...
Prince Sahle Selassie (see cut), third son of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Conquering Lion of Judah, the Elect of God, the Light of the World...
Operation Igloo. From the simple massiveness of Government House in the New City, Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, K.C.B., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., liberator of Ethiopia, High Commissioner of Palestine, looked out over his capital toward the bustling half-Jewish, half-Arab port of Haifa, 75 miles away. There the long arm of British policy, of which Sir Alan was but the firm hand, wrought its most arresting works last week. There Operation Igloo was in progress...