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Gleeful in England last week, ex-Emperor Haile Selassie hinted that he would send to the Coronation his favorite son-in-law, the doughty Ras (General) Desta Demtu, who was still in Ethiopia last week commanding the remnants of a native army. Few-hours later an Italian-led column of Ethiopian troops swooped down and routed the Ethiopian stragglers of Ras Desta Demtu. According to the Italian official version, Haile Selassie's designated Coronation envoy was implicated in the attempt to assassinate Italy's Viceroy in Addis Ababa by means of hand grenades (TIME, March 1). In short...
...Addis Ababa, amputated the shattered leg of Air General Liotta. By this time Viceroy Graziani had mobilized 30,000 troops on a war basis, issued a communique: "The outrage represents an episode of common delinquency." According to Addis newsfolk the Ethiopian grenade-throwers set up a shout of "Ras Desta is coming!" but in fact this onetime ras (chief) of Haile Selassie was hundreds of miles away making good his escape into British Kenya...
...pursue his rakehell career that it seems a miracle he had any energy left for writing, that he lasted as long as he did (38 years). Pushkin was born into the old nobility, but he also had black blood: his maternal great-great-grand father was an Abyssinian ras. Pushkin's parents were social, impecunious, improvident. They paid little attention to their swart, stocky son, left him in the haphazard hands of tutors. Pushkin's real educator was his nurse Arina, who filled him full of folklore...
...Died. Ras Dedjazmatch Nassibu, 42, doughty Ethiopian General who for seven months fought Italy's invading General Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, April 27 et ante); of tuberculosis brought on by inhaling Italian poison gas; in Davos-Platz, Switzerland...
...Ras Imru was said to have raised an army of 60,000, to have spurred Ethiopian patriotism with tidings that the Italians had executed Ethiopian Coptic Bishop Petros. Just as "Gore, Western Ethiopia," was becoming an accepted date line, however, it was discovered to be a fake. Cunning correspondents in Egypt had rightly guessed that U. S. editors would prefer dispatches from the seat of the "Gore Government" to the mess of rumors about it which today is all they can genuinely...