Word: ethiopia
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Last week Editor Mussolini opened up full blast to boom his aggressive designs against Ethiopia and blast Great Britain for opposing them at Geneva in the person of that sleek Etonian Peaceman, Captain Anthony Eden (TIME, June...
Other Italian papers charged that a certain Lieut.-Colonel Clifford from British Somaliland has said that Ethiopia's Emperor is willing to place his country under British protection for 25 years as the best insurance against Italy's designs...
...Abyssinia's inky-black Delegate, Pecla Hawariate, at his rooms in the Hotel Des Bergues, had told him what they were doing for his little country and advised him that the least he could do, if war could be averted, was to grant important commercial concessions in Ethiopia to Italy...
France and Britain privately might be willing to let Italy go as far as she liked in Ethiopia in return for assorted favors in Europe, but the British Government for one could not afford to let British Liberals think so. "Steps" might be a distasteful word to Il Duce. Distasteful steps were promptly taken. Sir Eric Drummond, onetime Secretary General of the League of Nations, now Ambassador to Rome, was suddenly called back to London for a conference with the Cabinet. Hard-working Capt. Anthony Eden, only just recovered from a heart attack, was appointed British agent for a suddenly...
...Duce has not yet said what he will do if the League does right by Ethiopia and indicts Italy for the rape of the dusky virgin to the south. But Europe knows the stormy petrol of Rome well enough to be sure that strong-arm action on the part of Geneva will send the third illustrious guest belting from a party which he considers to be getting too wild to suit his simple tastes. With Italy, Germany, and Japan forming a harmonious trio off in a corner thumbing their noses at the League of Nations, France and Great Britain would...