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Journalism by last week had been defeated in Ethiopia on all fronts...
...news only a scant dozen had not left by last week. Gone were Karl von Weigand, Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker and Evelyn Waugh. The Ethiopians had cheated the pants off the correspondents as individuals and collectively mulcted the world's news and newsreel services to an extent which makes Ethiopia journalism's worst investment of all time...
...around in Italian limousines and bathing in chianti," discovered with surprise on reaching civilization that it was themselves who physically and mentally suffered least. Dictator Mussolini, with the tendency of a onetime editor to hold reporters' lives cheap, let the boys on Italy's front get thoroughly Ethiopia-shocked...
...correspondent died in Ethiopia, Chicago Tribune's Will Barbour. Of him in Manhattan last week Emperor Haile Selassie's Public Relations Counsel Josef Israels II said, "I like to place Will Barbour among some of the other empire builders who are buried in African soil, because never in all the history of journalism has the press so swiftly, so expertly and so completely built an empire of news and enlightenment in a wilderness hitherto unpenetrated." This was one way of alluding to the fact that it remains impossible to obtain for love or money anything remotely approaching...
Sensation of Ethiopia today are newly arrived Moscow correspondents and cinemen representing Tass, official Soviet news agency. Seemingly supplied with unlimited funds and spending right & left, they say they are "preparing a complete photographic document of Ethiopia," were splashing vigorously about in Dessye last week making most elaborate shots of His Imperial Majesty for Bolsheviks to gape...