Word: ethiopia
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...same year with German conscription came the Italian attack upon Ethiopia, which was adjudged by the League of Nations a violation of the League Covenant which Italy had signed. This was followed by armed intervention in the civil war in Spain, and finally by the Japanese invasion of China...
...YORK--Prof. James T. Shotwell, President of the League of Nations Association, in an exclusive interview with the United Press tonight admitted defeat of the League's 20-year effort to abolish war by collective action of nations. He forecast that the appeals of Ethiopia, China and Spain to the League Council now in session would come to naught...
...Respecting the interests of Italy in the Mediterranean, which were to have been called "vital" while those of Britain were to have been called only "essential," this whole matter is covered by simply reaffirming the Italo-British Gentlemen's Agreement of Jan. 2, 1937. 4) Unexpectedly Italy mentioned Ethiopia's famed Lake Tana by name, affirmed that she will respect British interest in having this great lake remain the source of the Blue Nile, which waters the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. This was to set at rest popular British fears of several years' duration that the Italians might...
...Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet meanwhile had the French Chargé d'Affaires in Rome sign a treaty re-establishing interrupted Italo-French credit relations, then cast about for the right Frenchman to send as Ambassador to the King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia. This would mean recognition by France of the Empire carved out by Il Duce...
...soon afterward had it from highest British and Italian quarters. In general the treaty is to secure against Italian aggression British trade routes and spheres of influence on the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and to secure against British aggression the Italian trade routes and territories in this area, including Ethiopia (see map). The treaty would become operative after Italy withdrew her men from the territory of the Rightist Spaniards; and Britain would undertake to get the Italian Empire recognized by all members of the League of Nations, including Britain...