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This was parroted by German officials high & low last week while the Realmleader kept mum. Every wiseacre in Europe was saying that win, lose or draw for Italy, the Ethiopian war must prove a victory for Germany. If II Duce is permitted or succeeds anyhow in snatching colonial territory, Der Führer after that can scarcely be halted eventually in his announced purpose of "redeeming" the onetime Imperial German overseas colonies now held by other Great Powers. If on the other hand, Dictator Mussolini is balked by the League of Nations, the Italian attitude toward France is sure...
...externals and last week, by Nanking's appointment, he was the new Commander of the Peiping-Tientsin Chinese Garrisons. Smirked a high Japanese official: "We in-tend to keep offering General Sung every inducement to remain friendly." In Shanghai last week the vernacular China Times likened the Italo-Ethiopian conflict to the World War, which Japan made the occasion for imposing upon China the notorious Twenty-One Demands. Warning its Chinese readers to expect redoubled harshness from Japan this time, the China Times declared in painful ideographs, "China is like a piece of pork on the kitchen table waiting...
...perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Among the 500 people whom smart little Dr. Benes welcomed with a polite speech at the hotel des Bergues were: the Belgian Foreign Minister, the Turkish Foreign Minister, the Greek Foreign Minister, the Greek Minister to France, the President of the Norwegian Storting, the Ethiopian Delegate to the League and the indomitable Catholic mother of Austria's Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg...
Problem One: No. 1 Ethiopian newspaperman is Emperor Haile Selassie, editor-in-chief of the country's only paper. Because he works 20 hours a day. Conquering Lion of Judah is almost inaccessible to the Press. Occasional handouts from his official press bureau, written in French, contain scant news. Last week, for their chief source of information, correspondents had to resort to private "pipe-lines." Only thus, through expensive bribes, could they track down the hundreds of rumors which flashed daily through the streets of Addis Ababa...
Typical early headlines of 10.000 DEAD, based on official Ethiopian handouts, were soon proved false. "Official" reports of 1,700 killed at Aduwa were later corrected to 56 killed...