Word: ras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abyssinian Victory. Just two years ago it seemed that Italy and Britain were firmly leagued to assist each other in the joint commercial penetration of Abyssinia, backward Afric realm. Jointly the two great Powers brought pressure upon Regent Ras Taffari of Abyssinia to permit Italian exploitation of a railway and British construction of certain mighty water works for irrigating the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Smart, the Abyssinian Regent yielded momentarily, but subsequently made to the League of Nations a squa.wk so potent that British public opinion turned against the exploitation scheme? leaving in the lurch Benito Mussolini...
...Sublime and Imperial Majesty the Empress Zaudita, daughter of the late Emperor Menelik II. conferred last week upon her cousin Ras Tafari, the trusted Regent of her Empire, a potent title; "King of Kings of Ethiopia, Conquering Lion of Judah and the Elect...
...Crowned. Ras Tafari, onetime Regent of Abyssinia, now "King of Kings"; at Addis Abbaba (see ABYSSINIA...
Therefore, claimed Doctor Garabedian, when the mother-in-law fell ill two years ago, Ras Taffari wanted him to treat her, after Ras Taffari's own fashion. But "Doctor Garabedian, man of scruples, would not. Consequently, Ras Taffari called in a rival of Doctor Garabedian's, a sinister Greek. Soon the mother-in-law died...
Later, said Doctor Garabedian, Ras Taffari came to him, said the Empress, only remaining obstacle to the throne, needed medical attention. Doctor Garabedian would not undertake the case. Thereafter, claimed Doctor Garabedian, life was a series of subtle plots against his life, falsified political charges, unjust sentences. Last fortnight, he escaped from Abyssinia and Ras Taffari's evil eye, all the way to Geneva, Switzerland. Immediately he went to the International Labor Bureau, sued for $120,000 for persecution, broken health...