Word: ethiopian
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Prime new feature of the Pittman-McReynolds bill was a momentous mandatory provision for an embargo on loans and credits to all belligerents. Otherwise the new bill largely strengthens, confirms and makes permanent the peace policy set up by Congress, President and Secretary of State since Italy's Ethiopian campaign sent a great war scare rumbling across the U. S. As in the expiring law, the President in case of war must declare an embargo on arms, ammunition & implements of war against all belligerents, must forbid U. S. ships to carry munitions directly or indirectly to belligerents...
...Messaggero of Rome reached Stockholm, containing a paragraph from Italian Somaliland saying that Italian aviators flying over the southern front had seen people on the ground near hospital tents waving Swedish flags to call attention to their position. Yet last week a squadron of Italian planes circled over the Ethiopian camp to which the Swedish hospital unit was attached. After dropping leaflets, the flyers made straight for the Red Cross station itself, bombs falling, machine guns spitting. All nine Swedes attached to the hospital were killed, together with 23 Ethiopians. Ambulances were wrecked, all medical supplies ruined...
...Deal. Few months ago Dr. Sassard wrote of his patient: "The Emperor will undoubtedly fight at the head of his troops." In ringing proclamations His Majesty has more than once promised to do so. Simple Ethiopians expect any ruler worth his salt to remain for the duration of the war physically in the thick of the fight. Instead, both before hostilities began and since. Haile Selassie has kept Europe's diplomats well supplied with offers to make peace by selling or bartering parts of the empire, emitting at the same time declarations to the world press that he will...
...worst enemies ever predicted that he, as the engineer of the Tory political machine, could suffer a backfire of moral indignation from its stout innards. Not being his own Foreign Secretary, Mr. Baldwin could and did make a scapegoat of Sir Samuel Hoare. After that he stated the future Ethiopian policy of His Majesty's Government in terms so ambiguous that even this week new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had not yet made them clear. In effect Squire Baldwin announced. "We stand where we stand'' and confidence was voted...
High point of the performance: three Negroes called Sam, Ted and Ray, two of whom wear neat Ethiopian regimentals, while the third affects the sun helmet, black cape, gold-braided tunic and umbrella of Man-of-the-Year Haile Selassie, clogging for dear life atop a small dais...