Word: ethiopia
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...jewelry shop in the Kingdom to buy new gold rings for some 250 lire each ($20) to drop into the urns while they hide away their own golden treasures and wear the ugly iron of patriotism. Eight years ago at the watering place of Agnano, the present Emperor of Ethiopia gave a gold ring to his spinster bath attendant. Adele Chierchia, saying, "Let this be your wedding ring when you marry." Still a spinster and still a bathwoman, Adele dropped Haile Selassie's ring last week into one of Benito Mussolini's urns...
Famed as Harlem's pioneer in Ethiopia long before there was any war, "Colonel" Julian first came inescapably to the Emperor's attention by alighting with a devastating crash almost on top of His Majesty in what was then Ethiopia's only airplane (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930). During the current struggle, Addis Ababa has seen Harlem's "Black Eagle" flapping about in Sam Browne belt and natty uniform but denied a commission in Ethiopia's Imperial Air Force. He was several times kindly received by Haile Selassie, once to deny hotly that Italians had hired...
...Emperor is still my friend," cried Julian last week, "but as for the other Ethiopians-Bah! You may say that I have come to the unanimous conclusion that Ethiopia does not need or deserve help...
...especially gilded to blend with the antique décor. For draping the chamber with suitable hangings favored drapers got at least $2,000. Since there was much nose-holding at these costs, and since there was already much more nose-holding at the offer of nearly half of Ethiopia by His Majesty's Government to Fascist Mussolini...
...chairman of the meeting the Earl of Derby, close friend of King George, made what many considered a tactful allusion to world-wide indignation aroused by the impression that His Majesty's Government and perhaps His Majesty, as well, favor making peace by dismembering Ethiopia. Rumbled Derby: "The more people who come to this country to see us as we are and not as we are painted, the better it will be for the peace of the world and the easier for our diplomats and politicians to keep peace...