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Once in the chair, Professor van Zeeland read to the Assembly an extremely long and conciliatory note from Italy most pleasing to Britain. It promised that Il Duce will not raise a great Ethiopian army of conscript blacks -the one thing Britain fears, since with it Italy might upset the balance of power in Africa-and concluded in Benito Mussolini's nearest approach to a dove-cooing vein: "Italy will consider it an honor to inform the League of Nations of the progress achieved in her work of civilizing Ethiopia. . . . Italy views this work as a sacred mission...
Sting No. 3. The Selassie Brain Trust told everyone that Ethiopia has been "less than half conquered." that there is in the country a native Ethiopian Government with which they are "in communication" wherever it is, and that Ethiopians are still fighting the Italians as hard and as often as they can, considering that they have scarcely any ammunition...
Finally the League Council became so embroiled and confused last week that it decided not to touch the Ethiopian question at all, adjourned to await action this week by the League Assembly...
Unsuitable for wear in Ethiopia is the Fascist black shirt which absorbs heat rather than reflecting it. Last week young Marshal Graziani, energetic new Viceroy of Ethiopia, already had native moppets of tenderest age drilling as a pickaninny Balilla (see cut). From Rome arrived brand-new khaki uniforms for Ethiopian "Sons of the Wolf" to be worn with fetching green scarfs...
Viceroy Graziani meanwhile was busy whipping into shape plans for the Empire's new Government. Top dogs, all Italian, are members of the Council of Government headed by the Viceroy. They are advised by the Board of Consultors composed of six prominent Ethiopian chiefs and six leading Italian emigrant farmers and merchants. In Addis Ababa last week it was believed that some 400,000 of the Italian soldiers and laborers now in Africa will settle there, later bringing out from Italy their families "to colonize these depopulated lands with the fecund Italian race...