Word: ethiopian
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...having this great lake remain the source of the Blue Nile, which waters the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. This was to set at rest popular British fears of several years' duration that the Italians might by gigantic blasting and hydraulic operations cause the overflow of Lake Tana to water Ethiopian lands instead of Egyptian...
During the Ethiopian War Thomas Joseph Pendergast, Democratic dictator of Kansas City, was said to have used influence in Washington to quash the proposed U. S. embargo on oil to Italy. Last week Italian Vice Consul Alessandro Savorgnan of St. Louis draped around Dictator Pendergast's pudgy neck the insignia of the Order of Commander of the Crown of Italy...
GENEVA--Informed Fascist quarters indicated tonight that Italy may return to the League of Nations soon as a result of a British note asking that the question recognizing Italy's Ethiopian conquest be put before the League's May 9 council meeting...
...Ethiopia arrived last week 105 Italian colonists, each the father of a family waiting anxiously in Italy. The most capable expect to receive, gratis, an Ethiopian farm of 66 to 125 acres, but for the first two years the colonists (and others who follow them) will farm communal tracts...
Coincident with the opening of the looth session of the League of Nations Council, the Ethiopian Legation in London announced that during the past two months Ethiopians have killed 6,009 Italians and Italian-trained askaris. This was presumably an exaggeration for diplomatic effect. As Italians were quick to point out, during the whole original war of conquest they did not have so many killed...