Word: ethiopian
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...news that Standard Oil had canceled its Ethiopian concession (see p. 17) brought forth the portentous announcement from the Squire's study that now the world might see that U. S. dollar diplomacy...
...Ethiopian Lion is quietly sharpening his claws in preparation for the moment when he will pit his courage, savage skill and crude weapons against the scientifically equipped Italian Jackal," cabled the Herald Tribune's Linton Wells from the Champion's corner in Addis Ababa, taking sides at once as a good fight reporter must. "What impresses one particularly is the amazing morale of these classic-featured, bushy-haired black men. . . . So eager to fight are the Ethiopian lions that the Emperor is able only with difficulty to restrain them from attacking the Italians and precipitating the conflict...
...Addis Ababa last week, Ethiopian courtiers told correspondents that their Emperor was angrily rebuking U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Cornelius Engert inside the Royal Palace...
President John A. Brown of Socony-Vacuum (New York Standard Oil unit): I know absolutely nothing of the reported Ethiopian concession. The African Exploration & Development Company is not affiliated with the Standard Oil Company...
That evening at 6 p.m. Secretary Hull had correspondents into his private office to announce that Standard Oil was, after all, at the bottom of the Ethiopian woodpile. Obviously indignant, Secretary Hull declared: "The granting of this concession has been the cause of great embarrassment, not only to this Government but to other governments who are making strenuous and sincere efforts for the preservation of peace. . . . It [is] highly desirable that the necessary steps should be taken at the earliest possible moment to terminate the concession...