Word: ethiopian
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...Notwithstanding edicts, there is no Ethiopian chief or great house to which slaves of both sexes have not been furnished, beginning with the imperial palace. The authority of Ethiopian personages is measured by the number of slaves they possess. The very judges charged with the slavery question are themselves the possessors of slaves. Customs posts close their eyes and let slave caravans pass. While they talk abolition of the slave trade, they continue to pay taxes with slaves...
Such a country, declared Baron Aloisi, is unfit to belong to the League of Nations. Next day, on telephonic orders from Benito Mussolini, the Italian delegates began a melodramatic routine of jumping up and marching out of the League Council chamber whenever Ethiopian delegates arose to speak. This move backfired, won extra courtesy from other Great Power statesmen for dusky Ethiopian Chief Delegate Bedjirond Tecla Hawariate. Once when Mr. Hawariate, Premier Laval and Captain Eden had to enter the same door, such a contest of bows began that it seemed none would get in. Finally the Ethiopian entered first, next...
...Deal (see p. 17)?is too smart to think a dusky delegate could impress the League, his country's case was again presented last week by scrappy little French Law Professor Gaston Jèze. Wasting no breath to deny Baron Aloisi's undeniable facts on Ethiopian savagery, the Professor with great dexterity called Benito Mussolini a "Big Bully" without actually using those words. He neatly said that since nobody is to blame for the Ualual incident no cause exists for war, ridiculed what he called the Fascist concept of a "Supernatural Mission for Eternal Rome" and scathingly declared...
...from bearing the white man's burden in Egypt they are apt to join the Nile Club and last week in London this civil-servantish clique mustered its tailcoats and stiff shirts, its last year's evening gowns and small family pearls to be addressed by His Excellency the Ethiopian Minister, Dr. Azaj Wargneh C. Martin and his 9-year-old son, John Martin...
When he was himself a small, Ethiopian orphan, the future diplomat attached himself to a marauding band of British troops who in 1868 burst into his country under General Napier on what Queen Victoria called a "punitive expedition." The little waif had an appealing way with him. A Scottish officer took him along to India, gave him the name "Martin," had him educated as a physician in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Dr. Martin retired on a pension after 29 years of duty in the Indian Medical Corps. About this time Ethiopia's great Emperor Menelik heard of Dr. Martin, summoned...