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...This matter was handled in the regular course of business as a private transaction with Ethiopia, but without consultation with any other government. . . . Today . . . after conference with the Secretary of State [I] have decided to advise the Ethiopian Government of our intention to abandon the concession...
...evidence appeared that the Ethiopian Government actually received up to this week any official notice of cancellation from the business entity His Majesty knows only as "Standard Oil." Under the concession's terms its cancellation cannot take effect for 90 days, and by that time public opinion may have veered into another quarter...
What was going to happen now to the Ethiopian concession developed this week when the leaky old French steamer Porthos limped into Suez bearing Promoter Rickett. If that Briton had been a crowned head, he could not have been received, according to local newshawks, with greater consideration by Anglo-Egyptian officials. Suez Chief of Police Frank Harvey took the promoter off in a special launch, assigned a squad of detectives to guard him as he hurried from the canal area to Egypt proper. At the barrier an Egyptian officer snapped to salute and Francis M. Rickett drove off escorted...
Later in the day at Geneva a decision was handed out on the original Italo-Ethiopian armed clash at Ualual (pronounced walwal), the No. 1 specific causus belli. The arbiter, Dr. Niccolas Socrate Politis, a big-eared, beady-eyed little Greek Diplomat who for years has been a pushing League careerist, decided solemnly that "from an international standpoint" neither Italy nor Ethiopia was to blame for that bloody encounter in which 32 Italians and 107 Ethiopians were killed...
...eunuchs, which is still flourishing. The survival of atrocious practices, such as cannibalism for magical purposes and bleeding babies for ritualistic functions. The cruelest practices of torture and execution. Among these may be cited a punishment that the French ethnologist and explorer, Marcel Griaule, witnessed in Godjam. An Ethiopian guilty of aggression against a minor ras [chief] was wrapped in muslin strips, dipped in wax and honey and slowly burned as a living torch in the presence...