Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haile Selassie and an Ethiopian Army of nearly 45,000 men were at Quoram, on the route south from Aduwa. Ethiopia's Emperor stroked his silky black beard and picked Choice No. 1. Attacking with his European-trained bodyguard of 20,000 men, he headed straight for the Italian position on formidable...
Screamed Petit Parisien: "In impertinence, hypocrisy and false sentiments the German memorandum surpasses anything imaginable. The whole plan is an attempt to impose on the European problem a 100% German solution...
...Baldwin: "The members may go away less dissatisfied if they remember that they have just passed two conflicting votes and that it is the first of April." Given time to think it over, Prime Minister Baldwin reflected that even a freak defeat of his Government might look bad with European politics in their present state. Turning earnest next day, he announced that Miss Wilkinson's resolution would be redebated, voted on this week by a full House, the division to be counted as a vote of confidence or lack of confidence in the Government's foreign policy. This...
...Bresca family of San Remo, which since 1585 has clung to its perquisite of supplying palms to pontiffs. This week, when the rest of Christendom joyously concludes its 40-day Lenten fast, Rome and the Pope were to pass their quietest Easter in years. Because of Sanctions and European unrest, few tourists or pilgrims arrived in Rome for Holy Week. Because of the war in Ethiopia, the faithful who thronged St. Peter's Square on the off-chance the Holy Father might show himself were mostly women and children...
...RAPE OF AFRICA-Lamar Middleton-Smith & Haas ($3). Brief, graphic study in the European realpolitik ("60 years of duplicity and chicanery") that has partitioned Africa among six land-greedy nations; with the suggestion that the crisis over Ethiopia is only a beginning...