Word: ethiopian
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...have the honor to state," he snapped, "that the Italian delegation cannot admit the presence at the Council table of the so-called Ethiopian delegation...
When Anthony Eden heard that the Ethiopian Emperor had fled, that Addis Ababa was a shambles of wild disorder, that only the speedy arrival of Italian troops would save the lives of British subjects, he realized that he had steered British Foreign Policy onto the rocks. To his constituents in Leamington, he gloomily admitted defeat...
Italy continued to ship troops to Africa regardless. British indignation caused the collapse of the Hoare-Laval Deal for ending the Ethiopian War, but British opinion was strongly against starting another war against Italy to save Haile Selassie's dark skin...
Earmarked for assembling materials for the two new battleships was more than $2,000,000. Of the additional $51,500,000 asked by the Admiralty last week, $36,500,000 will pay for "expenditures necessitated by the Italo-Ethiopian situation . . . important improvements in our stock of ammunition, fuel and many other essential stores and in the equipment of the Fleet...
Correspondence. For his dispatches from the losing side of the Ethiopian War, Wilfred Courtenay ("Will") Barber of the Chicago Tribune was posthumously awarded $500. First U. S. newshawk to get into the country after hostilities started, 31-year-old Correspondent Barber sickened after three months, died in Ogaden last October of tertian malaria, nephritis, influenza, was buried on a hill in Addis Ababa (TIME...