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Subjects presumably discussed at the Leghorn meeting: 1) what attitude Britain will take in the event that Italy backs Spain's claim to Tangier (TIME, Aug. 23); 2) the progress of Italo-British pressure upon the Government of Abyssinia to grant British concessions at the headwaters of the Nile, and Italian concessions in Abyssinia near Italian Somaliland (TIME, Aug. 9); 3) the problems of Italo-British relationship engendered by Premier Mussolini's intrigues to form a pro-Italian bloc of nations in the Balkans...
...Ultimate purpose: to connect the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland by a trans-Abyssinian railway tapping much fertile country which might thus be brought under Italian dominance. fEventual design: to construct certain dams and waterworks among the Abyssinian headwaters of the Nile with intent to foster cotton growing in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The British dams would inundate numerous shrines held sacred by certain Abyssinian religious cults...
...Reisner's assistants who had the honor of actually finding the tomb. Allan Rowe '09 and T. R. Greenlees were working according to a plan of action drawn up by Dr. Reisner before leaving, on the plateau of solid rock between the pyramid of Cheops and the Nile. They had come almost to the edge of the rock where it was cut away in prehistoric ages by the Nile and has since been covered every year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered...
...enter the cracks which were all but invisible even after scraping. With great difficulty the first block was removed and it was found that many more lay underneath. The blocks below the surface were all of pure limestone brought from the royal quarry on the other side of the Nile. Some bore the catouche of Cheops himself, the builder of the Great Pyramid. This may mean that Cheops filled the entrance of the tomb of a prdecessor or it might conceivably mean that Cheops himself was buried in the tomb...
...Moses, mountain, chief and head of Past Tample, thank Pharaoh Hiachepsat for having drawn me out of the Nile and helped me to attain high dignities." This is the grand message, the revelation of the Hebrew lawgiver, Moses, according to one scholarly gentleman. According to another it is bunk drivel. The question, therefore, like the sword of Damocles, remains suspended...