Word: ethiopian
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...last week: Pierre Laval, fresh from Rome. M. Laval was grave. He reported to President Lebrun that there was nothing to be hoped for from the hungry Italians. If anyone could wring concessions from Rome, it should have been the realistic co-author of the ill-fated Hoare-Laval Ethiopian Deal; but he might as well have tried to wring wine from a Parmesan cheese...
...lean old Sir Samuel Hoare, who had been Air Secretary twice before (1922-24, 1924-29). Although British experts think planes can be produced much faster than "Cherub" Wood produced them, few thought last week that Sir Samuel, most famed as the co-planner of the abortive Hoare-Laval Ethiopian deal, was the man to produce them...
Count Ciano made his position unassailably strong when he got a rough-&-tumble pal of Ethiopian days, much-decorated Ettore Muti, appointed to Starace's job. Muti looks like a handsome U. S. gangster, and, not being too quick of brain or tongue, is the subject of merciless punning (muto = dumb). Last week Signor Muti had a gold medal pinned on his chest by Il Duce for having carried out 160 admirable bombing raids during the Spanish campaign...
...with the Finnish war (see p. ig). In Florence students demonstrated in front of the British Consulate. In Rome six additional police guards were assigned to duty around the British Embassy. In London everyone sat tight but in Kenya Colony, which borders Italian-held Ethiopia, troops massed on the Ethiopian frontier. In Berlin Foreign Minister Ribbentrop took a special train for Rome. Then Britain exposed her hand...
...siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order to become a "decent lady," and then floors fidelity. Fields spends his time quaffing alcoholic beverages, gambling with stacked cards, and coining such phrases as "I perceive there mist be an Ethiopian in the fuel supply...