Word: negus
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...domestic difficulties of his son were the least of cadaverous-faced Haile Selassie's troubles last week. In an effort to replenish his diminishing funds, the Negus was juggling several lawsuits in the air at once. Pleading that his client, the Emperor of Ethiopia was in a "distressing position," a Paris attorney attempted to convince the French High Court that Haile Selassie was the legal owner of 8,650 shares of Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad stock worth some $1,500,000. Backing away from a decision that Premier Mussolini would consider hostile, the court decided it was incompetent...
...Government of the area then under Italian control. The effect of Great Britain's de facto recognition is that I am bound to treat the acts of the Government which was so recognized as acts which cannot be impugned.'' Referring to the decree signed by the Negus at Bath: "I cannot imagine any ground on which it could seriously be argued that I could pay any attention...
...room in the King David Hotel porters carried a large radio set so that the Emperor might listen to Benito Mussolini's speech annexing Ethiopia (see col. 3). The Negus could stand only half of it, nervously snapped off the switch, went to bed all of a tremble...
...With the Negus heading for parts unknown like Man O' War on the home stretch, the Italians have all but completed their Ethiopian conquest. Only the final overthrow of Addis Ababa remains before Mussolini can stalk into the League of Nations chambers and brag of a complete victory. Though most experts have doubted the economic value of the prize, no one can deny that the rout of the Emperer has cut away the last prop from the tottering statecraft of Geneva...
...Rome Benito Mussolini felt that the time was ripe to do a little crowing. The Ethiopian War was going the way it should have gone six months ago. The Imperial Guard of Haile Selassie was smashed. The Negus himself was supposed to be hiding, beardless in the bushes. With a little luck Italian troops should reach Dessye by Easter. Then II Duce could demand peace on his own terms. To the Fascist Grand Council last week he roared...