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Killed in Action. Stuart Emeny, 40, distinguished London News Chronicle war correspondent; in the Burma plane crash which killed Major General Orde Charles Wingate. Courageous Emeny first became known for his coverage in 1935-36 of the Ethiopian War. In 1942 another correspondent disquieted Indian press officials with a cable from Cairo: ENEMY REACHES CAIRO INDIAWARDING TOMORROW...
Nobody was lovelier than blonde, Garboesque Mme. Hägglöf, graceful bride of the Swedish Charge. Nobody was fancier than the Norwegian Ambassador wearing every shape, cast, color and size of medal, decoration and ribbon. The new Ethiopian Minister, small and black, shone in his gold-braided costume. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr walked like a new Privy Councilor, impeccable in tails. U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman looked like a nervous young curate at an Episcopal convention-out of place in his too long, double-breasted business suit which he had tried to formalize with a stiff collar...
...early as 1769, during a Manhattan performance of Isaac Bickerstaff's comic opera The Padlock, an actor named Lewis Hallam got drunk on the stage in his role of a Negro slave and brought the house down. This eventually led to "the novel, grotesque, original and surpassingly melodious Ethiopian Band entitled the Virginia Minstrels...
Czarist ex-officer Count Anastase Andreivitch Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiatsky, friend of Fritz Kuhn and former worker in the Baldwin Locomotive Works, was on the same side of the fence as Robert Jordan, Fuhrer of the Negro Ethiopian Pacific Movement, Inc. Mr. Jordan "proudly wired Hitler that the Negro people of the world were with him in his fight against injustice," greatly embarrassed the Japanese by claiming blood relationship...
Farinacci, who lost a hand in the Ethiopian campaign (reportedly while using dynamite to catch fish), has what passes for the voice of the Fascist conscience. His newspaper, Il Regime Fascista, has railed against the abuses of bureaucracy, against defeatists, inflation and black-market dealings. Scorza, tall, tough provincial Party boss who once cheated Credito Toscano out of $6,000,000, is one of the Party's most ruthless administrators, has run an almost continuous series of purges of apparently thousands of "cancroid creatures who have crept into the Mussolini structure...