Word: ethiopia
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...eclipse of the moon threw Ethiopians last week into the brief panic an eclipse always produces in Ethiopia, but they were soon boastfully exuberant again when good war news came in from both the North Front and the South. Premature "little rains," not due until next month, made them believe that Allah, Jehovah and their assorted pagan gods were sending the 1936 Rainy Season ahead of time to save Ethiopia. Italy's motor transport was immobilized in many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could...
...North Front there was little doubt that Italian forces had either been driven from Tembien Province north and west of Makale or had withdrawn voluntarily. Repeatedly Addis Ababa claimed that Makale had fallen but Italians held it strongly entrenched and Ras Seyoum, Ethiopia's hulking northern commander, was not fool enough to storm it. He had. however, a splendid present for his Emperor who was temporarily mudbound in Dessye-four white Italian prisoners, footsore and ragged but otherwise in a fine state of preservation. Instead of having them mutilated in the oldfangled Ethiopian" way, newfangled Haile Selassie, according...
...deliberate the Italo-Ethiopian question further. Then 92 French warships and 156 British will invest the Mediterranean. Obliging M. Laval thus offered his countrymen their choice of war, and in effect dared the Chamber and Senate to say whether they prefer it to his policy of peace at Ethiopia's expense. Resolved not to fight, students of the Paris Law Faculty demonstrated in behalf of Italy and against Ethiopia's French International Law Professor Gaston Jeze (TIME, Aug. 12 & Sept. 16), with such vigor that his classes had to be canceled. Then the Law Faculty...
...become the arch-peacemaker with the assistance of King Leopold of Belgium. The Belgian Government was to propose at Geneva that the League draft a new plan similar to but less obvious than the Hoare-Laval Deal, while public opinion is distracted by sending a League mission to Ethiopia at Italy's request "for the announced purpose of investigating methods...
...other words, if the Great Powers can only be vague enough about dismembering Ethiopia, they may succeed...