Word: ras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numerous houses of joy, and all night long minor chieftains chanted the psalms of David while the Emperor conferred with his onetime Minister to Paris, modest General Tecle Hawariate, who, it was announced will be commander of Ethiopian troops in the North. The announcement promptly bred more rumors that Ras Seyoum, northern commander, had been killed in the aerial bombardment of Mai Mescic fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 2). Italian spies were unable to check it, while in Addis Ababa officials insisted that Ras Seyoum had sent definite word of his movements within the past few days...
...Emperor Haile Selassie, rode in triumph last week into his old capital of Makale. Behind him an Italian officer held high the Italian flag that had been hauled down from the same Ethiopian village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed...
Gugsa into Honey? A terrified, bug-eyed, berobed young man was Emperor Haile Selassie's son-in-law Ras Haile Selassie Gugsa when he went over to the Italians (TIME, Oct. 21). Swaggering about last week in a swank Italian uniform, puttees and sun helmet, Ras Gugsa was ready to be set up as a puppet ruler by Il Duce should occasion offer...
...only had all Gugsa's lands and property within the Emperor's reach been seized, but a large number of his kinsmen had been put to death in Ethiopian revenge. Announcing to his 1,500 warriors that not only his but all their relatives had been slaughtered, Ras Gugsa exhorted his numerous personal followers to avenge themselves. General de Bono took a chance and gave them rifles, and away they streaked far in advance of the Italian columns which this week were driving toward Makale, whose inhabitants hoisted white flags when bombing planes piloted by Count Galeazzo Ciano...
...necessary for Queen Victoria's campaigners to execute Afghans by blowing them from cannon mouths to impress other Afghans sufficiently with the horror of their death. In Harar last week it was necessary for Ras Nassibu, the Ethiopian Commander facing Italian General Rodolfo Graziani, to impress with similar horror the simple African mind. Twelve Ethiopian traitors, accused of being pro-Italian, were led chained into Harar's market place to the rattle of drums...