Word: ethiopia
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...called "Stresa Front" was cracked by Britain's opposition to Italy's war in Ethiopia. Cried M. Flandin amid fresh cheers: "I am seeking to bring about simultaneous suspension of hostilities in Ethiopia and of sanctions against Italy...
Significance. The releasing in London of such a British White Paper as this forced observers to surmise that either Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Premier Benito Mussolini have secretly almost settled their differences about Ethiopia, or else that the whole project of having British & Italian soldiers guard the Rhineland shoulder-to-shoulder was sheer diplomatic March Madness. The Dean & Chapter of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral were so incensed that they refused to offer the usual Sunday prayers for His Majesty's Government and to the congregation Canon Thomas Arthur Edwards Davey cried: "We will not lead...
...means is Crown Prince Umberto one of the many Italian aristocrats who have rushed to the war in Ethiopia. Amid nationwide furor last week his wife, Belgian-born Crown Princess Marie-José, showed where she stands by engaging passage to sail for Ethiopia as a Red Cross nurse this week...
...anything, the undertaking of such a peace obligation was last week to most Britons a great deal more repugnant than talented Sir Robert Vansittart's earlier scheme for making peace between Italy and Ethiopia, but the thinking machines of Britons were definitely whirring, the Honor of England was engaged, and Adolf Hitler was howling his head...
...Misguided friends of Ethiopia," cried Lord Mansfield, "brought about rejection of the Hoare-Laval proposals, wherefore Ethiopia will now have to accept worse terms...