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Robert D. Crane '49 and Frederick I. Ordway '49 will embark for Jibuti, French Somaliland, this afternoon in an UNRRA cattleboat, they announced yesterday before leaving for Baltimore to pick up the ship. From Jibuti, the peripatetic duo plans to proceed to Addis Ababa, and thence south into Central Africa...
...Examples: New York to South Africa, 50? a word; to Somaliland, 83?; to Australia, 60?; to Singapore...
...proposed that after ten years all Italian colonies, except Somaliland, be granted independence...
...Italians in London would negotiate as hard as they could to keep Eritrea and Somaliland, might be content there as elsewhere to see joint trusteeships which would maintain an "open door to Africa." Of Trees & Brooks. The Trieste issue had descended to a technical problem much too minute to be handled at the Truman-Stalin-Attlee level. The city would almost certainly be internationalized, but its ultimate fate would depend on where lines were drawn in its hinterland. Racial and historical factors moved strings back & forth over detailed maps of Venetia Julia province. The watercourses were most important, because...
...first nation to be attacked by the European dictatorships was feeling its oats. In Addis Ababa last week, the Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Department demanded sovereignty over the former Italian territory adjoining its frontier. That territory, Italian Somaliland, is now British-occupied- and Britain has its own ideas about the ownership of the strategic Red Sea littoral. The same day, the British Government made a formal presentation to Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah: a sleek new Rolls-Royce limousine. Territorial claims could be discussed later...