Word: ethiopian
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...grin last week on the face of Benito Mussolini, who has mobilized in Europe 1,000,000 soldiers, not to mention his 300,000 in Africa. In London II Duce's envoy, Dino Grandi, kept saying: "Now is the time to settle everything" - i.e., to make a Vansittart Ethiopian peace and a Vansittart German peace. The august London Times raised its deep voice in harmony with this attitude...
...issue did not go well, although one anonymous woman bought $69,000 worth. The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches seeks to promote world harmony by international exchanges of pastors. It recently heckled the Pope for seeming to side with his fellow-countryman in the Italo-Ethiopian War (TIME, Oct. 21 ). The Women's International League, for Peace & Freedom, a favorite cause of the late Jane Addams, is trying to get 50,000,000 signatures throughout the world, 12,000,000 in the U. S., to a People's Mandate to Governments...
...stranger to other shores is Dr. John Hathaway Spencer, 28, Grinnell '29, who has just taken up residence in Addis Ababa as new adviser on international affairs to the Ethiopian government. He was born in Rome, son of Edward B.T. Spencer, professor of Greek at Grinnell since 1916. Twice as his father's assistant he made European tours. After postgraduate work at Harvard, he received fellowships that enabled him to study a Paris and Germany...
...were last week. As Marshal Badoglio's war machine lumbered and built roads and climbed forward, Italy's crack troops scaled the terrific 11,000-ft. heights of grim Mount Alaji (25 miles farther on) and the flag of Italy was again fairly up on the great Ethiopian Plateau...
...place was taken by his assistant, a 33-year-old Harvardman named Philip Barber with much practical backstage experience with the Group Theatre and the Theatre Guild. Director Barber soothed things over for a while by substituting for the Ethiopian production a dramatization called Triple-A Plowed Under, which reviews the Administration's farm program without giving the New Deal any the worst of it. Last week, when a drama called Jefferson Davis became the first Federal production to reach a Times Square theatre, Director Barber began catching it from all sides...