Word: ethiopia
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...moral prestige of King George was associated last week with "The Deal" to make peace in Ethiopia by giving Italy approximately half that Empire (TIME, Dec. 16). With no subsequent tut-tutting from courtiers, Associated Press put on the world's wires that in highest circles His Majesty was believed to have strongly urged (if he did not command) Captain Anthony Eden, Sanctionist Extraordinary, to assist in making peace quickly by means of The Deal and to desist at Geneva from trying to put through further sanctions...
Eden can certainly claim a heavy political reward later, was the general impression in Parliament, for stowing away all moral considerations last week and upholding The Deal before the Commons. "Let's face the facts!" barked Captain Eden. "If Italy, Ethiopia and the League accept discussion on the basis of the suggestions which have been made in Paris, there is nobody here that is going to say 'No,' even if some of those proposals may not be particularly appealing...
Alarm over the North China area larger than Ethiopia which Japan is trying to detach from China's Nanking Government by military intimidation and a "war without battles'' (TIME, Dec. 9) last week brought Chinese War Minister General Ho Ying-chin hotfoot to Peiping. After heroic haggling with the resident Japanese militarists, General Ho was expected to announce this week a "new status" for North China, ambiguous and unsatisfactory to all concerned. Fresh Japanese brandishing of Might was expected to follow...
...collective action of the League that would not be delighted to see friendly relations between themselves and Italy restored and sanctions ended!" Sir Samuel then returned to his old saw that peace must be made on terms "acceptable to the three parties to the dispute, Italy, the League and Ethiopia...
...Perhaps we are engaged in a hopeless task," smiled the Foreign Secretary affably. "Perhaps it is impossible to reconcile the divergent aims of the League, Italy and Ethiopia...