Word: ras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carry stories dated overnight from "Gore, Western Ethiopia." They appeared to have originated by radio from Gore, referred to "the provisional Government here," declared that quantities of ammunition captured from Italians have passed through Gore in recent weeks, and named as the Gore Government's military leader Ras Imru, first cousin of Emperor Haile Selassie...
...poll by vocal roll-call. So visibly ashamed were the League delegates not to vote $50,000,000 into the pockets of the Emperor that 23 said "no" in tones barely audible, 25 maintained shamefaced silence, nine were not present, and only the Emperor's doughty General Ras Nassibu shouted out the solitary "YES!" for Justice and $50,000,000. At this result His Majesty was afterward said by his entourage to be "disgusted, disheartened and disillusioned...
...first-class Pullman. He took second-class on reaching the Continent and as his Geneva-bound train halted at Paris the King of Kings was greeted by one lone French official. That night, outside His Majesty's compartment door, one of Ethiopia's doughtiest generals, Ras Kassa, stood guard in the swaying, jouncing train, with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden asleep a few cars away, first class...
Sting No. 2. The Emperor sent to sit in the League Council one of his most famed generals, Ras Nasibu, who for months held the Italians at bay. "The Emperor has retained all his rights," declared the Ras. "The Emperor has never ceased and does not now cease to demand from every one of the States that have signed the League of Nations Covenant execution of their promises made to Ethiopia, which are clearly set out in the articles of the Covenant bearing the signature of every member state...
...member of the American Ambulance Mission in Ethiopia. Speaking at Leeds, terse Dr. Hooper said that Benito Mussolini had been right in claiming that the Ethiopian high command deliberately misused the Red Cross for purposes of war. Original offender was Emperor Haile Selassie's redoubtable General Ras Desta Demtu, according to Dr. Hooper, who declared: "We were making a hurried retreat. Ras Desta Demtu commandeered a Red Cross truck and loaded it with ammunition. The truck fell into the hands of the Italians, and it was shortly thereafter that they decided to bomb Red Cross ambulance units...