Word: ethiopian
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...area 30 years from now, she is right now, today, willing to take all the steps of the aggressor which will inevitably plunge not only Italy and herself, but other European nations not in the slightest involved, into war. 4) That her interest in Italy's Ethiopian occupation is entirely selfish, else why did she so cavalierly shrug her shoulders at Japan's machinations in Manchuria, meanwhile leaving the U.S. "out on the limb" in precarious single protest. 5) That not content with getting the nod from the League, she is attempting to lead this country step...
...trying to see what the Dictator's war machine was doing 40 miles away. In the foreground Old de Bono could see distinctly part of a grimy Italian labor battalion slaving to make roads, a spate of lumbering trucks and tanks, many a picturesque sight full of local Ethiopian color...
...correspondents last week stopped both in their tracks. At the headquarters of Old de Bono rumors were thicker than gnats. Some correspondents cabled that a camel corps of 20,000 men was being organized in the southwestern corner of Eritrea for a dash, not at any of the main Ethiopian positions but at Britain's "sphere of influence" in the general direction of Lake Tana...
Strictest neutrality is the policy to which the United States is committed in the Ethiopian struggle. The Senate intended to insure this by the much-discussed neutrality legislation, and an overwhelming majority of the people obviously approve. Nevertheless, despite--or perhaps because of--their profound desire for peace, a majority equally overwhelming support Great Britain and the League in their effort to apply sanctions against Italy. It is the old American dilemma--the desire to interfere yet to remain uncutangled, to advise but not to execute...
...gain from their leader's private war. To just what extent a people may be held responsible for the acts of their statesmen is a nice philosophical point. All we in America can do is to avoid condemning the Italians themselves. For without tolerance, no real settlement of the Ethiopian or any other war is possible...