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Haile Selassie, whom the British now call Highly Satisfactory, pushed on into Ethiopia last week with a new weapon -propaganda. Even in the Ethiopian bush this proved to be a potent factor, for the area into which the Negus was pressing was Gojjam Province, long a hotbed of native revolt against the Italians. Haile Selassie's organ of propaganda was a newspaper written in Amharic, called Bandarchen ("Our Flag"), bordered with the Ethiopian Imperial colors, mastheaded with the monogram of the Lion of Judah, and bristling with nationalistic slogans. Sixty camels, with armed escort under a British officer, carried...
With Agordat in their possession, the British were set to cut off Northern Eritrea and eventually squeeze Ethiopia. Against the day when the Ethiopian squeeze might be applied, Negus Haile Selassie and Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, a slim lad of 24 who divorced his wife be ause her father submitted to the Italians, rallied their compatriots...
...Negus Goes Back. No one can be so persuasive with the noble savage as the sophisticated Briton. Instead of whipping him into line as the Italian does, he convinces the native that his own profit is at stake with the British cause. Ever since the Italians took 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...
Haile Selassie issued a call to action, and native bands began to harass the Italian rear. The Negus meant business. Said he: "When I enter Addis Ababa, I shall lead my victorious troops into the Capital, mounted on a white horse, just as Badoglio did. I will tear down the figure of the wolf erected by the Italians in Addis Ababa Square and in its place will reinstate the white marble statue of the Lion of Judah." In London, his roly-poly, good-natured Empress Waizeru Menen collected her daughters, packed her crown jewels for the big entry, climbed aboard...
...blood, may the massacre of sanction-ists arrive as you have willed it, on sea as on land. End for today and for always your designs on Abyssinia, repay us our debts of 1915 to 1918, as we will repay to your credit the dumdum bullets you sold the Negus. Amen...