Word: ethiopian
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Rotting corpses, noisome reminders of Mussolini's sordid victory, littered the Ethiopian bush. It was treacherous country at best, full of crocodiles and hostile tribesmen-certainly no place for an Ital ian soldier to go wandering. But the lieu tenant had a bad tooth. He had to get to an army dentist, and a short cut through the bush would cut his traveling time in half...
...seventh story is worth the rest of the book together. Little Foxes recounts how a few enlightened Englishmen nobly shouldered the white man's burden in an Ethiopian province, and introduced civilization in its highest form-the fox hunt. With an efficiency extraordinary in the colonies, they soon had organized the whole province around the hunt, so that it became an indispensable function of government...
Time to Change. Independent Douglas was-dogmatic about another party too: his proposed alliance of farmers, workers and consumers should have no truck with the Communists. In 1935, he and his wife went abroad, stood in the Palazzo Venezia the day Mussolini sent Italy into the Ethiopian war. Douglas, who had become a Quaker in 1920, turned away from pacifism then & there. He heard and approved Franklin Roosevelt's warnings against dictators. And he discovered that Roosevelt had cribbed a lot of the Socialists' ideas. He decided there was indeed a logical place in American life...
Many of the finest things that archeologists dig up were once junk thrown away by the owners. Recently unearthed was a beautiful Greek relief of an Ethiopian slave and a horse saddled with a panther skin (see cut). Carved about 125 B.C., it would probably have been destroyed long ago by weathering if it had stayed in its original place. But when Greek civilization degenerated into barbarism, the two marble slabs were used as secondhand building stones to line a rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them...
...Between Roosevelt and him there was never an "unfriendly word," although "a few emphatic differences rose between us which we thrashed out bluntly but in a friendly spirit." Hull had to make his own decisions "in the majority of cases." He recommended the moral embargo against Italy during the Ethiopian war. He worked out the details with the British on the overage destroyer deal...