Word: ethiopia
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...stout club. If this has been the plan of the Italian dictator, Emperor Haile Selassie's telegram to Geneva is a good indication that he will not have to wait much longer for the desired nervous breakdown. No matter what answer the League makes to the walling message from Ethiopia, it is certain to pay the price of one of the major blunders of its history, and the price is deplorably stiff according to that organization's present shaky condition...
Charge and countercharge cracked back & forth last week between Benito Mussolini and Ethiopia's kinky-haired Emperor Power of Trinity I, as to whose soldiers attacked first at Ualual in eastern Africa (TIME, Dec. 24). Ethiopia sent to the League disconcerting testimony from a British pasturage commissioner on the spot that the Italians had behaved in a manner highly "provocative." Fearing another clash on Ethiopia's border, the Abyssinians last week zealously polished their Japanese arms. Great hero was white-robed Chief Ghogoli who had rallied his dusky horsemen at Ualual so smartly that they were able...
...successful move to force the Greek Government to pay 50,000,000 lire ($4,265,000 Roosevelt) indemnity for the killing of an Italian general by Greek bandits. Two weeks ago II Duce was in a mood to smack that luckless Ethiopian His Majesty Power of Trinity, Emperor of Ethiopia and Conquering Lion of Judah, who promptly squealed protests last week to the League...
...Italian Somaliland, Italy's straight little Vittorio Emanuele III landed from the royal yacht Savoia, dedicated a new fort on the boundary of envious Ethiopia, marched into the jungle on a big-game hunt...
Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi's press bureau amplified his statements by pointing out that the world's 6,000,000 slaves are in Ethiopia, Liberia, China and Moslem nations; that 2,000 slaves a year are taken from Africa across the Red Sea to be sold in Arabia...