Word: ethiopia
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...matter how few the casualties, one person almost certain not to survive the Ethiopian war has been Lij Yasu, "Child of Jesus," the 38-year-old onetime Emperor of Ethiopia. Deposed by Haile Selassie in 1916, Lij Yasu has since 1926 been a closely guarded prisoner in the fortress of Gara Mulata, well fed, comfortably lodged, but handcuffed night & day to the wrist of a guard. Lest Italy should release him, make him a puppet emperor, it was announced weeks ago by the Emperor that "Child of Jesus" had been moved to the shores of southernmost Lake Rudolf...
...Italy the position was that if Britain should do anything silly, such as have the League of Nations add oil, the lifeblood of Italy's war machine in Ethiopia, to the list of products banned under Sanctions, then Dictator Benito Mussolini might indeed do something silly. As the polished diplomatic game of understatements and euphemisms in three languages went on last week, a distinct possibility grew that, as in 1914, the talented Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Premiers, Presidents and Kings of Europe may find to their genuine surprise and dismay that a situation has been created calling for their soldiers...
...church yard at Aksum, Ethiopia a richly clad priest strolled beneath the drooping leaves of eucalyptus trees. Guardians of the sacred room are watching anxiously from their narrow windows in the cathedral. For with the priest is an American, a reporter. and the two are walking back and forth. The reporter has been talking at length and finally ends with something liek this: "But a look won't scare them away. Can't you understand what it means for you, for my newspaper, for the world if these sacred relics which you say the Queen of Sheba brought from solomon...
...world weary is he that this morning, like a true rover that he is, he shan't let names of lectures wind his way but rather the names of men. So at nine he is off to Sever 19 to hear Professor Kittredge--no, not on Ethiopia, simply Shakespeare. At the same hour--as the mood moves him--he may go instead to Sever 11 to hear Professor Munn. At 10 o'clock he will listen to Professor Sorokin in Emerson 211. At 11 o'clock either he will hear a stimulating lecture by Professor Bixler in Emerson...
Thus warned, the Nobel Committee considered another Carl, Sweden's Prince Carl, who had been active in Swedish Red Cross work during the World War in Siberia and lately in Ethiopia. This stopgap fell through when a clerk discovered that Prince Carl's name had been submitted a few days after the deadline. Suddenly the Committee realized it was not obliged to name anybody, having in the past skipped four War years and four years since. Lamely last week it announced there would be no 1935 Nobel Peace Prize award because "with war raging in Africa, Anglo-Italian...