Word: ethiopic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best guess: the British had heard that atavistic instincts had again got the best of many an Ethiop patriot. So Haile Selassie was asked to try to stop it. For if the conquest of Ethiopia were accompanied by numerous atrocities, victory would turn into a moral defeat...
...Ethiopia, Britons have nursed the Negus, Haile Selassie, with convincing tenderness. Not long ago, when the British began to resurge in Africa, he flew from Britain toward his native land to start beating his war drum (his drum, he says, has a different tone from that of all other Ethiop chiefs; the blacks know it well). At the same time the British sent "military missions" among their would-be allies, to persuade them to rise up against the Italians. But there is no persuasion like apparent success. The campaigns in Eritrea and Kenya were the final signal for action. From...
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