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Under an illogical arrangement which clicks perfectly in practice, Egypt has the status of an "independent kingdom" controlled by the British Government. As Britons return home from bearing the white man's burden in Egypt they are apt to join the Nile Club and last week in London this civil-servantish clique mustered its tailcoats and stiff shirts, its last year's evening gowns and small family pearls to be addressed by His Excellency the Ethiopian Minister, Dr. Azaj Wargneh C. Martin and his 9-year-old son, John Martin...
Last week Diplomat Martin, having as a child seen British troops invade Ethiopia, ruffled the Nile Club by observing with asperity: "If worst comes to worst, Ethiopia would much prefer being under the just and considerate administration of Britain than that of Italy." This caused the British Foreign Office to call him in next day and intimate that an envoy to the Court of St. James's would do well not to refer publicly to His Majesty's Government as the lesser of two evils. But meanwhile 9-year-old John Martin had completely won over the Nile Club...
...British public opinion was whether to protect a savage and backward but innocent African people against being singed by the torch of civilization in Eternal Rome's hand, but the issue before the Cabinet was primarily how to protect British investments in the Sudan and along the Blue Nile which is fed from Tana, Ethiopia's great lake. Tana is so placed among rocky crags that a little earnest dynamiting would divert its precious waters from the Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains now dry but capable of becoming a second fruitful Egypt. The loss to British investors...
...British move last week was actually financial. Her monster "Big Five" banks claimed to be acting independently of the Bank of England when they tightened credits to Italy sharply, made the munitions buying Dictator wince at the vast, invisible potency of London financiers. If any sneak up the Blue Nile was started it was a genuine sneak. Comfortable Punch cartooned a musical comedy interlude in which Dame France and John Bull, wagging their fingers at II Duce, sing: We don't want you to fight But, by jingo, if you do, We shall probably issue a joint memorandum suggesting...
Interviewed by the United Press last week, Premier Mussolini pledged that Italy will completely respect "Britain's local interests in Ethiopia," referring to Lake Tana and the Blue Nile. Continued the Dictator: "England in the protocols of 1891 and 1894 recognized that almost the whole territory of Ethiopia is included in the sphere of Italian influence. These protocols are still in force. . . . Italy will pursue her aims- with Geneva or without Geneva or against Geneva. ... A nation on the march, as the Italian nation is today, cannot be stopped by the static conceptions of the life of peoples...