Word: ethiopia
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...plaintiffs, in other words, might whistle for their money, but the judgment meant more. Here was a sly opening gambit by which Britain, some months hence, may recognize legally the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and end a very tense diplomatic situation...
...purple on the bench sat the Hon. Sir Albert Charles Clauson, C.B.E. Before him was a case in which stockholders of Haile Selassie's defunct Bank of Ethiopia were attempting to regain possession of certain securities, admittedly held by the National Bank of Egypt in Cairo, against the Italian-appointed liquidator of the Bank of Ethiopia, one Wladimiro Liguori. Plaintiffs brought in evidence a decree signed by Emperor Haile Selassie from his exile at Bath...
...safety of the Rhineland. As the discussions continued, the German Foreign Minister emphasized that Germany had no intention of returning to the League of Nations, and Mussolini sympathetically indicated that Italy, though still a member of the League, would have no truck with Geneva until the Italian conquest of Ethiopia is recognized...
Northern Entente? Until 1918 the Scandinavian countries-Norway, Denmark, Sweden-were neutral. Then, like Belgium, they yielded to idealism, joined the League of Nations. That ideal was shattered when Germany marched into the Rhineland, when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia. It was during Mussolini's African adventure that the famed Oslo group got down to business. The Scandinavian countries, headed by Sweden, decided they had better look out for themselves. A German and Russian clash might come and the Baltic would be the danger zone. Accordingly the Foreign Ministers of the Scandinavian countries continue to meet from time to time...
...devotion to peace, launches warships, has birthdays, plows fields to prove that he knows the dignity of labor, shatters microphones, lowers the age for little boys to start rifle practice and for little girls to drill with gas masks." If he announces himself "satisfied." like Mussolini after swallowing Ethiopia, "so is a boa constrictor when it has just swallowed a calf. The intermission is only digestive...