Word: negus
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...Arctic is being stripped away by radio, airplane and Caterpillar tractors, and its government may as well be exposed, too. No less important, the council roster now includes for the first time a representative of the people governed: hulking (6 ft., 227 Ibs.) John G. McNiven, mine manager for Negus Mines, and-as a fellow councilor describes him-"the very picture of a husky, hardrock miner...
...decade ago he began to learn. From Marshal Badoglio's observation post on a green African hillside, he watched Fascist bombers and blackshirts cut the Negus' forces to pieces. The Ethiopians' valor in the murderous battle of Amba Aradam made no immediate impression on his political consciousness. He came out of the campaign with an Italian War Cross, and no idea that he had witnessed a rehearsal for World War II. "The right or the wrong of it did not interest me greatly," he confesses...
...nipped it. Gold-mining, a nonessential industry, was stopped. But last week ex-servicemen were heading north in droves. The Negus mine was already back in production. The Con mine (Consolidated Mining & Smelting) and the Giant Yellowknife mine (expected to be the area's biggest producer) would be producing soon, as would a half-dozen others. Besides, some 250 other companies, most of them new and almost all of them with the alluring word "Yellowknife"* in their names, were busy prospecting, drilling, promoting and hoping. They had plenty of reason for hope. With all its curtailments and setbacks, Yellowknife...
Haile Selassie, Conquering Lion of Judah, appeared to be in the chips. At Sweden's famed Orrefors Glass Works his coat of arms was being tooled on 676 crystal carafes and drinking glasses which would set back the black-bearded Negus...
Last January the Negus himself opened negotiations with London. Last week Foreign Minister Anthony Eden announced the outcome in the House of Commons: under a new two-year agreement Britain would voluntarily restrict her rights in Ethiopia. Specifically Britain would: 1) remove her garrisons, except from Ogaden province bordering British Somaliland where the tribesmen were still restless; 2) open Ethiopia's airfields (heretofore restricted to British traffic) to all Allied aircraft; 3) give up operations of the Ethiopian section of the 486-mile Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad, the country's only rail link with the sea. Politically...