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...four days he and his 2,000 men-stiff-fezzed Askaris and undrilled Danakil tribesmen, backed by a battery of moun- tain artillery mounted on camels-had made the most spectacular forced march of the entire Ethiopian campaign. To protect the flank of Italy's main army of the north with its spearhead at Makale, they had gone where no white men had ever gone before, skirting the blazing Danakil Desert, then up over the bitter cold highlands facing the Derdega Mountains. One thing General Mariotti knew: Degiac Kassa Sebat was ahead of him with an indefinite number...
...Chancelleries of Europe diplomats began to speak last week of the Italo-Ethiopian Question and the Italo-British Question as distinct and thus capable of separate solutions. Helping this along with a flat assertion, undoubtedly premature, highest Paris diplomatic sources said off the record that in Rome last week the Italo-British Question was solved by Benito Mussolini and Sir Eric Drummond, although the Dictator and the Ambassador obviously could divulge nothing until after Britain's general election this week. In neither Rome nor London could the slightest confirmation be obtained, though in Mayfair some swank wits opined...
...Honest Broker") Laval began with sub rosa dickering which the British Government would not acknowledge, progressed by getting the League to give Britain and France a mandate to make the deal respectable (TIME, Nov. 11) and last week was having pressure exerted at Addis Ababa. For the first time Ethiopian statesmen close to the Emperor discussed openly with correspondents this hypothesis: Suppose Emperor Haile Selassie should keep his rich native Province of Harrar but give up the Province of Ogaden in which the original Ualual Incident occurred, the fruitful Webbe Shibeli Valley and of course Aduwa, "if by this enlightened...
Even a few days before, mention of any such deal had provoked the Ethiopian Foreign Office to blasts of scorn. Last week the feudal Rases of Ethiopia were being sounded by Emperor Haile Selassie's confidential agents. Some of them reacted by demanding that His Majesty at once take the field and fight, as Ethiopian sovereigns always did in days of old. Instead, the Emperor sent Arks of the Covenant to encourage his troops (see p. 16) and talked of making only brief dashes to & from the front...
...Addis Ababa correspondents who stressed the deal most heavily in dispatches last week, was so far from angering Haile Selassie thereby that the Emperor asked him two days later to read off for His Majesty in English a radio broadcast to U. S. listeners in which the wily Ethiopian cried: "You people of the United States can help . . . inflict ... the international form of punishment, known as sanctions, upon the Italian people." But the King of Kings concluded, "I ask no one to take the sword against Italy...