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Excellent from the Italian point of view was the League's agreement. Made operative under the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 it still left Italy more or less free after Aug. 25 to treat as she would with the League. The Italian general staff, skeptical from the beginning of the Abyssinian adventure, had insisted for months that it was useless to advance until the rainy season was over, about Sept. 1. Of course if the arbitrators could reach a definite agreement before Aug. 26, Italy might be obliged to abide...
...Honorable Senators!" he cried, and every Fascist leaned forward, knowing that potent words would follow: ". . . The problem of Italo-Ethiopian relations is the order of the day, and not only in Italy. . . . One rumor abroad in some foreign circles is to be denied formally immediately-a rumor of Franco-British diplomatic 'steps' in Rome...
Although the League will probably placate Italy by winking at the array of troops, airplanes, and tanks on the Ethiopian borders, to the world at large such conduct can be nothing but the last straw. If, as seems almost inevitable, the League of Nations fails to give justice to this fourth-rate African power, it can be definitely challenged as having failed to observe its obligations, and in the future can be regarded as merely a convenient cloak, concealing without conspicuous success the machinations of European diplomacy...
...Crown Prince frequently paid friendly visits to the young physician at the hospital to the great consternation of his solemn lifeguard of sometimes 3,500 magnificently armed men. He was born in 1909 according to Ethiopian calculation of time, but in 1915 according to our calendar. His name with titles looks like this: Mgorash Moered Atmatch Asfa Woosen. He is a very munificent monarch who talks many languages, a stately young man who lives in Dessye and governs that province, so to speak, to learn the art of ruling the entire country...
Throughout the many changes at the Metropolitan, Verdi's melodies remained fresh and vital. And Gatti, hearing them again last week, was almost happy. The cast was the best he could provide. As the Ethiopian Aïda, Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg sang her music with fine regard for line and feeling. As her Egyptian rival, Maria Olszewska made a voluptuous Amneris. Lawrence M. Tibbett was in blackface but everyone recognized him by the power in his voice, the authority of his acting. Giovanni Martinelli sang the "Celeste Aïda" with all his might, clung to the last...