Word: ethiopia
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...final Spanish White victory should be considered a victory for Italy and Germany without also being a victory for Britain, France and moderate Europeans generally. Stanley Baldwin knows that many of his best friends think he bumbled in not getting Britain in on the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and His Majesty's Government now have a similar "opportunity" in Spain-sine after all the Empire is an imperialist Democracy...
...Mother of Christ that Princess Marie-José might have a male child. Only six days before she gave birth the Princess watched a performance at the San Carlo Opera House, applauded heartily. Her latest patriotic exploit was to leave her husband at Naples and go to Ethiopia whence she returned more popular than ever (TIME, March 30). Though Princess Marie-José's birth pangs came on prematurely there was time for her strapping Montenegrin mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, to rush from Rome to Naples, but her more fragile mother, the sad-eyed, widowed Queen...
...said that Europe's first task must be to end Spain's war, that no other European problem of consequence can be solved until that has been accomplished, that Spain is potentially much more apt to give rise to a general European war this year than was Ethiopia last year. "You make me impatient when you talk about Democracy," Il Duce told Mrs. McCormick. "You talk as if it existed or could exist in this 20th Century world of machines and mass production, as if we were still living in the 19th Century world of individual enterprise...
...went to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, was in Brussels in 1914 when the German invasion began. For his Wartime service he was knighted in 1920. In 1935 he was the first to discover and reveal the short-lived Rickett oil concession in Ethiopia...
...sword-flourishing nationalism, fostered by the Army leaders has swept over Japan and has just been given still more punch by the Japanese-German agreement to fight Communism (TIME, Dec. 7) and by the even more recent Japanese-Italian accord in which Japan recognized Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia. Last week the Japanese Diet gathered for its 1937 session and called on the carpet before Japan's politicians were Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and War Minister General Count Juichi Terauchi. On the first day of the session last week Foreign Minister Arita had to face critics...