Word: ethiopia
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...Ethiopians and getting ready to smash toward Tana if on Nov. 18 the British at Geneva succeed in having League Sanctions applied on schedule. It was queer, dispatches from Addis Ababa observed, that Italian bombing planes, now well within operating range, not only had not bombed Ethiopia's Capital up to last week but had not even bombed Harar, where the local Ethiopian satrap was having suspected traitors flogged to death. Repeatedly second-string correspondents jumped the gun with rumors which produced last week such headlines as "350,000 ETHIOPIANS DEFEATED IN BATTLE...
...friend" and pledged "continued loyalty" to the League Covenant. They nodded sagely when Premier Laval recalled, as meaningly as possible last week, that only last January he sat down with Premier Mussolini and signed a "treaty"-one of the quid pro quos being a free hand for Italy in Ethiopia...
...appearance of this phrase in a speech by Squire Baldwin was a leading development. Though some excited citizens still put the issue to themselves in terms of the necessity of preserving Ethiopian independence at all costs, many a British citizen was commencing to ask himself last week why Ethiopia must be aided to remain savage and backward. Not entirely for fun London's august Times printed in full a very long letter from George Bernard Shaw. Excerpts...
...Italy is making roads through Ethiopia with the avowed intention of colonizing the country. The Danakils are doing their utmost to stop the process by killing the road makers and their guards. The League of Nations is being strongly urged by Mr. Eden to assist the Danakils in killing the Italians with the object of stopping the road making and forcing Italy to retire discomfited, leaving the primitive tribesmen triumphant over European civilization...
...Majesty's Government: "Sanctions will not stop the advance of Mussolini's army, not by one hour! They will not save one Ethiopian life. Sanctions will not prevent guns and ammunition, or any war material or troops, from passing from Italy to reinforce the attack on Ethiopia. They are passing freely now. We are supplying Italy, through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in which we are, I think, the largest shareholders, now with the oil used in her bombing airplanes! "I saw the Ethiopian Minister today, and it was a very pleasant conversation I had. These bombing airplanes...