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...finally came to Addis Ababa last week. Early one morning a telephone clerk near Dessye called excitedly to say that a huge flight of Italian planes had passed overhead, evidently headed for the Ethiopian capital. Twenty minutes later a sharp-eyed outlook fired a warning gun from the hilltop by the royal palace. Soon ten planes came over the eastern horizon. Traders and warriors in the town rushed into their compounds, blazed away at the sky with ancient muskets, double-barreled elephant guns, Belgian trade rifles, all with no apparent effect. For 15 minutes the Italian planes circled...
...Italo-Ethiopian War still has the benefit of a large, roving x quantity in bluff, pushing Francis William Rickett, the British promoter who wangled a huge concession from Haile Selassie for Standard Vacuum Oil and then, to an international chorus of "Shame! Shame!" was paid off and repudiated by the U. S. concern (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.). Dressy Mr. Rickett's importance survived last autumn's misadventure because his safe continued to be the repository for the concession for the subsoil rights to precisely the two-thirds of Ethiopia that Benito Mussolini wants. The contract gives Rickett...
Last week Hearstman Karl von Wiegand, Universal Service's roving correspondent, resoundingly "scooped"' his colleagues with the astonishing assertion that Rickett had sold, subject to Haile Selassie's agreement, his Ethiopian concession to its most logical purchaser: Benito Mussolini. If this were true, Haile Selassie had a face-saving opportunity to reject Italy's military demands while selling the invaders two-thirds of Ethiopia on a business basis and thus ending the war. Wrote Correspondent von Wiegand...
Thus another nail was driven into the common fallacy of supposing that Italian Fascism exists to maintain the Italian capitalist status quo. Instead, under pressure of Sanctions and the cost of the Ethiopian campaign, Italy is becoming at ever faster tempo a kingdom in which the individual capitalist has less & less that he can boss...
...Chamber of Deputies was "abolished" once & for all last week, according to Il Duce, but he further declared, "Formal inauguration of La Camera del Fasci e delle Corporazioni [The Chamber of Fasce and Corporations] will depend on the successful conclusion of the Ethiopian War and upon developments in the European political situation...