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...King, being to all appearances convinced that Italo-Ethiopian peace must be made by negotiation and not by surrender if another World War is to be avoided, made himself clear to the Nation this week by according Sir Samuel Hoare an hour's private audience. Such a British honor would have been unthinkable if the King had been shocked or morally revolted as Leagophiles were by "The Deal'' of Hoare & Laval...
Surprisingly last week the Ethiopian censor with His Majesty at Dessye passed a dispatch reading, "If Il Duce wished to instill fear into the hearts of these ignorant natives he has certainly succeeded...
...Horizontal Issue." Neutral observers throughout Europe noted mournfully last week that the Ethiopian Question seemed to have become a ''horizontal issue," not so much dividing the nations of Europe as internationally splitting social layers. Broadly speaking, the upper classes, from Scotland to the Golden Horn, and the governments of nations ruled by aristocrats and the bourgeoisie were for peace at the price of partitioning Ethiopia to make a Fascist holiday. Broadly speaking the proletariat, the lower classes and nations governed by Socialists (such as the Scandinavian kingdoms) were for delivering the death blow to original Fascism by means...
Less ecclesiastic Ethiopian leaders in Addis Ababa shouted that any acceptance of The Deal would cost the Emperor...
...Ethiopians do not consider themselves Negroes," continued Negro Julian, adjusting his Ascot and eyeing the crease in his Savile Row pearl-striped trousers. "American Negroes should keep out of international affairs! I saw Ethiopian soldiers tortured and mutilated because they had stolen a bit of grain or refused to fight. It was not only brutality by the Ethiopians toward Italian prisoners, but toward men, women and children of their own race. I saw children who had stolen a little bread, with hands chained to their feet. I have not written a book, I have written an epistle...