Word: ethiopian
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...These thalers are nothing but disks of silver struck in Vienna with the likeness of Austria's long dead Empress.* Silver collected from Italians last week and minted into Maria Theresa dollars was impressed with Maria Theresa's death date, 1780, only date considered any good by Ethiopian chiefs whom Signor Mussolini expects to bribe to desert their Emperor, as well as by Arab sheiks whom II Duce plans to hire from across the Red Sea and fling under Islam's banner against Negro soldiers of the Cross...
...Trinity realist faced realist and cunning fenced with cunning. In Europe last week the Dictator's pervasive diplomacy had caused Britain, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Denmark to make official their ban on arms shipments to Ethiopia, induced France to have her High Commissioner in Syria bar Ethiopian recruiting among the savage Druses, and caused Sweden to forbid her airmen to sell their wings to Power of Trinity...
...Addis Ababa, where the Emperor knows perfectly well that famed Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Black Eagle of Harlem," who is always trying to horn into the Ethiopian Air Force (TIME, March 4), is nothing but a chiseler and a clown, His Majesty was constrained in desperation to give Julian an airman's job again. In France meanwhile stray U. S. members of the oldtime Lafayette Escadrille began organizing a flying circus to fight for Power of Trinity, his Minister in Paris promising "plenty of promotions and plenty of decorations" but showing small readiness to advance cash...
...with a book about Ethiopia called The Hell-Hole of Creation in his luggage (TIME, July 8), received countermanding orders last week when it was realized in Washington that his knowledge of Chinese dialects and experience in dealing with Chinese bandits might not be of great help in shooting Ethiopian trouble. Mr. Hanson was therefore ordered to Saloniki, Greece. To Addis Ababa was ordered First Secretary Cornelius Van H. Engert of the U. S. Legation at Cairo, the State Department having discovered that he has served in Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Persia and Afghanistan and speaks languages likely to be more...
...have decided on the struggle and we will carry it to the end! Remember, Italians have always defeated the black races. The only such battle that turned against us was Adua [Ethiopian victory of 1896]. That was an exception. There we were overwhelmed by superiority of numbers. There 14,000 Italians fought 100,000 Ethiopians. The reason for this heroic and unfortunate exception was that Italy had at that time a government less concerned for its soldiers than for Parliamentary chicanery. Today all Italy is behind its sons! Today all Italy prefers a heroic to a useless life...