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...Mussolini would not retreat from his position of demanding Ethiopia for Italy, agree to formation of a joint Italo-Anglo-Franco Exploitation Company "for opening up Ethiopia," and promise to keep out of that part of Ethiopia in which Britain has keenest interest, Lake Tana which feeds the Blue Nile. This proposition they made conditional on the unlikely fluke that it would be accepted by both the Emperor of Ethiopia and the League of Nations. It must also be accompanied, stipulated Captain Eden and Premier Laval, by a declaration that "the independence of Ethiopia remains unimpaired...
...Primitives," says Dr. Lévy-Bruhl, "do not classify the entities in nature as clearly marked out from each other." Hence the "dispositions" of animals, plants and inanimate things are as noteworthy as the attitudes of men. The Bahima of the Nile will not boil milk lest the cow be displeased and give no more. Eskimos, who consider animals much wiser than men, believe that seals are perpetually thirsty because they inhabit salt water. Accordingly when they kill a seal the first thing to do is douse a dipperful of fresh water into the seal's mouth...
...neighboring colonies have suffered severely from raids by Abyssinian tribesmen. Italy would probably stop that. Nineteenth Century Britain was content to discipline Abyssinia in hard-fought border skirmishes. Since then she has acquired peaceably what she wants most in the country: control of Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile and life blood of the thriving Sudan cotton fields. Djibouti in French Somaliland is the port of entry for all Abyssinia, and France already controls the only railroad in the country, that between Djibouti and Addis Ababa. There is little reason for her to waste men and money...
...time, 60-year-old Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Sidney Clive has not lacked excitement. Bravely he served with Kitchener of Khartoum on the Nile, was decorated again during the Boer War, won the D. S. 0. during the World War, served as Military Governor of Cologne and as British Military Representative at the League of Nations. Last week in the comfortable security of his new London post as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, distinguished, elderly Sir George stepped into one of King George's state carriages to rehearse the procession for the Silver Jubilee Parade...
...analysis he finds, with croaks of envy, to be oceans of water. Heavily wooded areas look dark to him and he has difficulty distinguishing them from the oceans. The Sahara and Arabian Deserts look fairly bright, the clouds three times brighter still. In the African spring he sees the Nile valley turn dark with new vegetation. But unless his instrument is considerably more powerful than telescopes on Earth, he can see of man's handiwork not a trace...