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Spain and Ethiopia. The vote of confidence secured by Neville Chamberlain specifically covered his announced intention to declare in force the Italo-British treaty of last April. This instrument recognizes the Ethiopian conquest on the condition that "substantial" numbers of Italian troops are withdrawn from Spain. Spain recently said good-by to 10,000 Italians. There are still some 40,000 Italians fighting for General Franco, but Mr. Chamberlain told the House last week...
...Further, of all the countries of Europe there are only two, namely, ourselves and the Government of Soviet Russia, which have restricted themselves to de facto recognition. The latest country to recognize formally Italian sovereignty in Ethiopia is France, and her new ambassador will be accredited to the King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia. We propose to follow the same course as France...
Last week the 18,000 peasants, made up of 1,800 families, each of which was required to have a minimum of eight members, sailed to the Libyan coast on steamships which had seen heavy service shuttling troops and wounded from Italy to Spain and Ethiopia and back. Heads of the families were either veterans of the Ethiopian campaign or stanch Fascist Party members. Many of the women were big with child. Three infants had been delivered on the Genoa docks. Trucks, provided for each family by the Government, rumbled each family to its new home. These were...
...Daladier has lengthened French working hours by scrapping the 40-Hour-Week Law in "industries vital to national safety." He has broken with the Communist Party, formerly a pillar of the French Popular Front coalition, to the delight of Berlin. And Premier Daladier has recognized the Italian conquest in Ethiopia by appointing Andre Frangois-Poncet to Rome as the first French Ambassador ever accredited to "Emperor Vittorio Emanuele." All this meant that France had been scared into swerving Right...
...bloody resistance of the Arabs (see p. 22), made a tentative gesture. "Dependent upon the attitude toward Fascism assumed by Jews in the World as a whole." the Grand Council announced that it "does not exclude the possibility of conceding controlled immigration of Jews into some zones of Ethiopia, even deflecting such emigrations from Palestine." To stimulate those Jews in Italy who are not exempt from the anti-Semitic decrees to apply for emigration permits to go to Ethiopia, the Grand Council further decreed that such Jews: 1) may not own or manage Italian concerns with 100 or more employes...