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After words of praise and encouragement from Emperor Haile Selassie, a battalion of Ethiopian troops-1,153 officers and men-left Addis Ababa last week for combat service with the U.N. allies in Korea. Well trained in street and guerrilla fighting and hardened to mountain war, the Ethiopians, all volunteers, were equipped with British rifles and battle clothing. The Coptic Christian Church gave them permission to eat non-orthodox food (i.e., U.S. rations), and sent along a chaplain. From Addis Ababa they went to Djibouti in French Somaliland, boarded a U.S. ship there. It was reported last week that they...
Other contributions were still trickling in. A battalion from Colombia will be ready in March. A company of 63 Cubans is preparing for embarkation. Currently being trained and equipped for Korea: 1,069 Ethiopian infantrymen...
...aggressor was a "fairy tale." There were only Chinese "volunteers" in Korea. South Africa was next. Its position: firmly with the U.S. Then a man took the floor who should have given the laggards among the delegates some uneasy moments. He was Ato Gachaou Zallaka, a small, neat Ethiopian. In a fast, four-minute speech delivered in French, he simply warned that the "sad experience" of the League of Nations, which permitted his country to be invaded, should not be repeated...
...against Dictator Cipriano Castro, later became Francisco Madero's chief of staff in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11, organized an Italian Legion to fight for France in World War I. At first violently opposed to the Black Shirts, he eventually shifted his allegiance to Mussolini during the Ethiopian campaign but was put into jail by the Nazis during World...
...American Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles and French Albert (The Plague) Camus, Italian Ennio Flaiano has found Africa a fertile field in which to cultivate an existentialist viewpoint. The unnamed lieutenant who narrates The Short Cut feels that he was the victim of events; even his murder of the Ethiopian girl seemed a deed to which he was driven by forces beyond his control. But his conscience worked against him, carried him into a feverish world where he became convinced that his victim had given him leprosy. When his careful inquiries about the disease aroused a doctor's suspicions...