Word: ethiopian
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...year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits and derbies. The roly-poly Empress Menen remained in Jerusalem. The Emperor's party significantly traveled, not on League of Nations passports or British laissez-passer cards, but on Haile Selassie's own Ethiopian Government passports...
...March of Time is as fine as ever, with a survey of unemployment conditions in New Jersey, a splendid outlining of the troubles diplomatic and military attendant on the Ethiopian conquest, and the story of American railroad improvement...
Proud Procession. Just inside the city gate the Italian line halted while the squabbles began again. A high priest with a war drum, a few startled natives and one lone officer of the Ethiopian Imperial Guard were waiting for the Italians. Only foreigner attending the ceremony was Secretary Balay of the French legation who arrived with a guard carrying machine guns and a tricolor flag...
...tent rode a bedraggled, bearded native on muleback carrying a twisted twig and a scrap of white cloth. Stiffly dismounting, the blackamoor bowed low to the ground in token of submission. It was Ras Seyoum, onetime ruler of Tigre Province, the "Black Fox of Ethiopia." ablest of the north Ethiopian chieftains. For six months he had held Italy's armies at bay. Alone he had arrived to surrender...
...enjoy talking off the record. Last week this strange political organism assembled privately in a House of Commons committee room to discuss the aftermath of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Even the Parliamentary innocents who revolted so violently last December against the Hoare-Laval Deal to end the Ethiopian War were convinced that there was just one thing for the British lion to do: swallow its pride, lick its wounds and try to save what was left of the League of Nations. In secret recommendations to the Foreign Office, the committee added this warning: ''The Government must...