Word: ethiopia
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...declare that war between Italy and Ethiopia has ended and U. S. citizens are once more free to sell arms to and ride on the ships of Italy and Ethiopia...
...Kingdom was about to climb down before the Italian Kingdom when handsome young British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden rose to speak. In the gallery sat Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, whose spade beard turned from black to grey during the weeks and months of British-Italian threats and bickering over Ethiopia. Suavely Captain Eden, with the complete aplomb which he gained at Eton, Oxford and in the trenches, told the House that the pro-Ethiopian, pro-League and anti-Italian policy upon which his whole career and promotion to Foreign Secretary was based, is now no more. Said the Foreign Secretary...
...Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia, had just upped Marshal Badoglio from the administrative office of Viceroy of Ethiopia to the aristocratic, hereditary dignity of Duke of Addis Ababa. It was time for the rumors that at heart Marshal Badoglio was anti-Fascist to be scotched last week, and scotched they were. Amid regal pomp the Duke of Addis Ababa drove to the Secretariat of the Fascist Party, majestically ascended its marble stair and received a card enrolling him as a member of the Fascist Party. Grizzled new Member Badoglio then barked a loud, soldierly...
...Duke was supposed to have returned to Italy primarily for kidney-stone treatment. Last week's developments explained further. Named new Viceroy of Ethiopia, to do the exhausting job of "civilizing" one of the most recalcitrant native peoples on the globe, was bristling Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, 53. The 64-year-old Duke of Addis Ababa resumed in Italy his post of Chief of the General Staff...
...that the 800,000 troops he is mobilizing in "war games" under the Italian Alps to intimidate the League of Nations when it meets late this month to discuss Sanctions will be officered directly by the military genius who did what most European military experts had called "impossible"-conquered Ethiopia in a single dry season before the rains could bog down his troops...