Word: ethiopian
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...agreement represents a liquidation of the Ethiopian affair rather than the formulation of a new policy by either Italy or England toward the Spanish crisis. Written in very general terms, it can not have great effect because it makes no effort to solve the problems caused by the attitude of great powers to the crisis...
...Italo-Ethiopian crisis of last winter, it would have been beneficial to have known beforehand that "Sanctions" as the League of Nations chose to apply them were going to be worse than useless. If it had been further known that the British were secretly playing tit-tat-toe with Italy and France behind Geneva's back (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935, et seq.}, the League states would never have voted Sanctions. In lost trade, Sanctions must have cost at least $275,000,000-a particularly dead loss. Last week, when the Inter-American Peace Conference rose, it had been...
...drink, or the scene at the Hotel Baal in Nineveh, where the Lady chairman of the Semiramis Club, a sort of women's Rotary, a part ably acted by Miss Evelyn Stern, speaking of the post-war generation of young people with their fondness for mixed Greek wines and Ethiopian music, calls upon the Prophet from his far-flung battle line to give them all his "message...
...return for Austrian and Hungarian recognition of the Ethiopian conquest, Count Ciano promised them a part in economic exploitation of the Empire. Il Duce was in a mood so generous that Austria was further compensated for the loss to her exporters inherent in Italy's devaluation of her currency (TIME, Oct. 12). Compensation was offered in the form of lowering Italian tariffs on items figuring largely in the exports of Austria...
Lawrence of Arabia has become in the Near East a legendary figure whose death in a motorcycle accident in England (TIME, May 27, 1935) is considered by many Moslem chiefs to be only a particularly clever British ruse. During the Ethiopian War, swarthy millions believed that Colonel Lawrence was alive in Addis Ababa advising Haile Selassie. Some think he is now in Western Ethiopia and will yet pluck victory for the Lion of Judah. Last week in London was auctioned off a packet of letters from Lawrence which were extracted from him by ingenious Ernest Thurtle, a Manhattan-born member...