Word: ethiopia
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Until 1935 there was little to trouble a knobbly-kneed schoolgirl, Tsahai, about her father's rambling stone house or his loose-woven kingdom in Ethiopia. Going back home from school in Switzerland or France, she noticed unhappily the filth and disease which flourished on the ignorance of her father's people. And there was her father's household law, confining her to hidden rooms of the palace. But there were compensations...
...year-old Tsahai no year was so free, so filled with hope as this one. Back with her parents in Ethiopia, she worked to teach her father's people to avoid filth and disease. She could appear among the tribal chiefs under the yellow umbrellas, talk to them of sanitation and of germs, devising Amharic words to fit her needs. She married Colonel Abiy Abbaba of her father's victorious army...
Died. Princess Tsahai, 22, younger daughter of Emperor Haile Selassie; at Lekamti, Ethiopia...
...story is simple. In a village in the Abruzzi at the time of the war on Ethiopia, a brave old woman hides her sick anti-Fascist grandson, Pietro Spina, from the police. Recovered, he leaves her, joins his friends in another hideout. An informer forces them to move on. They do a little underground work. Pietro (he was also the hero of Bread and Wine, TIME, April 5, 1937) begins a romance, runs afoul of the authorities as the book ends...
...F.A.U. has other units at work in Libya (Tobruk), Syria and Ethiopia. Sixteen men were lost in Greece. Already two F.A.U. men in China have died of typhus and one was captured by Japanese in Hong Kong. The major operation in China involves transport of medical supplies to hospitals. . . . The program is largely financed with American funds from United China Relief...