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According to the TIME-FORTUNE theory of war I presume the present Italo-Ethiopian tea party [TIME, Dec. 24 et scq.] is being fomented...
...Italy's No. 1 munitions maker Mussolini in order that he may sell arms to himself, or 2) the shoe tycoons of Ethiopia who perspicaciously realize that one dose of Italian foot-scorching gas will send the entire Ethiopian army rushing to the shoe stores...
Meanwhile in London orders were dispatched by His Majesty's Government to have over one million sand bags rushed from Egypt to be piled around and above the British Legation in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in case the Cheap Comedian should send bombing planes to blow Emperor Power of Trinity out of his palace. Punctually at 11:55 a. m. one day last week a pink silk veil covering the Emperor's box in Parliament was drawn aside and the shrewd, sharp-faced potentate addressed his people. He spoke in native dialect. Il Duce said afterward that...
Atrocities, slaves, fate. Since the rest of the warm-hearted world will not easily swallow such ice-hearted candor, Il Duce's Son-in-Law Count Ciano worked happily away in his Ministry of Propaganda last week. His best Ethiopian atrocity: "On the night of May 31 wild Ethiopian tribesmen captured 4,000 head of cattle from an outpost in Italian Eritrea and carried off as slaves a number of men and women. The tribesmen mutilated several children who were abandoned bleeding on desert sands...
...Eiji Amau said: "The Japanese Government is watching the situation with grave concern because the outbreak of war anywhere is a calamity that indirectly injures many countries besides the combatants. I believe the stories that Japanese capitalists have obtained cotton concessions in Ethiopia are unfounded. The story that an Ethiopian prince was seeking to marry a Japanese girl is groundless. We have received no appeals from Ethiopia, we are not engaged in consultations of any kind regarding that nation, and we are not shipping munitions to Ethiopia. There, gentlemen, is that definite enough...