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...under dog and a black one at that, Ethiopian Emperor Power of Trinity decided to appeal last week to President Roosevelt and the collective conscience of U. S. citizens. Resident in Ethiopia are 125 U. S. citizens, 110 of them missionaries. Judging by them His Majesty felt he was appealing to a highly Christian people who had given the world the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." When Ethiopia was successfully pressed by President Coolidge to adhere to this Pact, Ethiopians hoped they had an ace of some sort in the hole, and they looked...
Precisely how loathe the President was to believe that there is going to be war, he then showed by having all U. S. citizens in Ethiopia instructed to depart. Immediately the Ethiopian Mission Service ordered all its U. S. and other missionaries to remain at their posts in Ethiopia "whatever happens." Its explanation: "We put our faith in God, and do not expect consular protection." At latest reports from Washington the State Department still had not ordered Chargé D'Af- faires William Perry George to cable the full text of Emperor Power of Trinity's appeal...
Decision to Struggle. Meanwhile Dictator Mussolini continued in cold blood to make efficient preparations last week for his Ethiopia-snatching war, thus giving other statesmen every opportunity to prove their humanitarianism by trying to stop him. II Duce went to the length of publicly demonstrating a compound produced by Italian chemists to be strewn by Italian airplanes on the soil of Ethiopia to sear and burn the proverbially bare feet of Emperor Power of Trinity's savage troops. At the demonstration a photographer trod on the stuff, was picked up by Italian soldiers and rushed to a watering trough...
Meanwhile the U. S. State Department's famed "Trouble Shooter," George Charles Hanson, sailed from Manhattan to become U. S. Chargé d'Affaires in Ethiopia. As a bon voyage gift last week one of his friends gave him L. M. Nesbitt's book on Ethiopia called Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME. March 25). "This book," beamed Shooter Hanson, "whets my interest...
Since such readiness to give away British territory profoundly shocked the Commons, Scottish Laborite James McGovern scored more than a laugh off the National Government by shouting, "Suppose we give Ethiopia the Irish Free State...