Word: ethiopian
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...under dog and a black one at that, Ethiopian Emperor Power of Trinity decided to appeal last week to President Roosevelt and the collective conscience of U. S. citizens. Resident in Ethiopia are 125 U. S. citizens, 110 of them missionaries. Judging by them His Majesty felt he was appealing to a highly Christian people who had given the world the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." When Ethiopia was successfully pressed by President Coolidge to adhere to this Pact, Ethiopians hoped they had an ace of some sort in the hole, and they looked...
Precisely how loathe the President was to believe that there is going to be war, he then showed by having all U. S. citizens in Ethiopia instructed to depart. Immediately the Ethiopian Mission Service ordered all its U. S. and other missionaries to remain at their posts in Ethiopia "whatever happens." Its explanation: "We put our faith in God, and do not expect consular protection." At latest reports from Washington the State Department still had not ordered Chargé D'Af- faires William Perry George to cable the full text of Emperor Power of Trinity's appeal...
...additional reason for threatened Italian expansion was viewed last week by Professor Rayford W. Logan of Atlanta University (Negro). Addressing the New England Institute of International Relations in session at Wellesley College, Professor Logan, as kinky-haired as any Ethiopian, gravely declared...
...manner anything but national, Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare cried, "The Commons must trust the Executive Department in these matters! If it is not prepared to trust the Government, the whole basis of government is destroyed." He then hinted that no actual effort will be made to settle the Ethiopian Question with a gift of British soil, Dictator Mussolini having scoffed at the idea and insisted on his own solution...
...Premier Mussolini seems to have plunged into his Ethiopian adventure without proper preparation and perhaps with lack of knowledge of true conditions in East Africa. It looks as if he had bitten off more than he can chew...