Word: negus
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...Most of the French demonstrators, and many of the Italians in private, refused to take seriously Premier Mussolini's "unofficial" campaign for French lands. In Paris some 6,000 non-serious Sorbonne students paraded the streets with placards demanding "We want Vesuvius! We want Venice! Ethiopia for the Negus!" (see map). At the quiet Alsatian border town of Strasbourg, students answered Italy's demands with shouts of "We want Sicily! We want Sardinia!" and in Algiers, capital of the French colony which adjoins Tunisia, hundreds of natives joined university students and chanted "Sicily and Sardinia for France-Italy...
Speaking at a London literary luncheon, Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, longtime (1911-34) "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's Cathedral, made some prophecies about dictionaries of the future. Under "negus," said he, one might soon expect to find "1. A drink composed of wine, water and sugar. 2. See Victor Emmanuel. In the same way, in the next edition, you may see: Democracy-obsolete form of government still practiced in North America. See dictator." In New Haven, Conn., Yale Freshman William Eldred Jackson, only son of U. S. Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, was arrested for pulling down...
However, little "personal need" is in evidence at the Ethiopian royal family's seven-acre estate, Fairfield, outside Bath, England. The 14-room Georgian house is jammed with furniture, expensive rugs hurriedly crated out of Ethiopia when the Negus and entourage fled. Behind the high walls the Emperor strides along beside his elderly cousin, Ras Kassa, on their morning walks. His favorite reading is, ironically, "diplomatic history," but most of his serious hours are occupied with the 90,000-word story of his life which he is laboriously turning out in Amharic. The 14-year-old Duke of Harrar...
...London, a Chancery Justice heard the Negus' counsel stoutly assert: "I hope to satisfy your Lordship that the plaintiff is still the Emperor of Ethiopia. . . . He is so recognized by the British Government." But the court postponed decision on the case in which British Cable & Wireless Ltd. denies it owes the Emperor $50,000 for the maintenance in Ethiopia of a radio station for duplex radiotelegraphic service between Britain, Ethiopia, instead claims that the money now reverts to the King of Italy...
Faced with the loss of his remaining holdings, the Negus again appealed for public subscriptions. In London, the Abyssinia Association is collecting an "Emperor's Fund." Months ago he issued a call for a $10,000,000 "war chest," first purpose of which apparently was to provide for himself. When his request went unheeded, he wailed: "My appeal to the world for my distressed country has failed to bring in a response sufficient even for my personal needs...