Word: somaliland
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...proud man, had longed for the absolute authority he once had. In the interim, Britain had guided his affairs of state, protected his frontiers, helped restore his war-torn towns, even put down tribal rebellions. There were also disturbing whispers that Britain was planning to mold a Greater Somaliland out of British and Italian Somaliland, with a slice of Ethiopia included. Haile Selassie wanted less help in managing his own affairs...
...January the Negus himself opened negotiations with London. Last week Foreign Minister Anthony Eden announced the outcome in the House of Commons: under a new two-year agreement Britain would voluntarily restrict her rights in Ethiopia. Specifically Britain would: 1) remove her garrisons, except from Ogaden province bordering British Somaliland where the tribesmen were still restless; 2) open Ethiopia's airfields (heretofore restricted to British traffic) to all Allied aircraft; 3) give up operations of the Ethiopian section of the 486-mile Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad, the country's only rail link with the sea. Politically, the Ethiopian...
...Baron Decies, 77, bluff, bristling Irish peer, British soldier and fighting Conservative; in Ascot, England. He had two U.S. wives (first a Gould, then a Drexel), steadily battled for the taxpayer against "overswollen government bureaucracy," also saw action in the Matabele Rebellion (1896-97), Boer War and the Somaliland ("Mad Mullah" campaign -1903-04), was Chief Press Censor for Ireland during World...
British judges and assessors sit on the Ethiopian bench. Britons operate the railroad from Addis Ababa to Dire Dawa near the French Somaliland border. British officers control the Ethiopian police force, train Ethiopian soldiers. A British commission controls the Addis Ababa wireless. A British air commission rules the air over Ethiopia. Britain uses, rent free, an estimated $320 to $360 million worth of property left behind by the Italians. A British financial commission helped set up a new Ethiopian state bank. The United Kingdom Commercial Corp. expedites what trade there...
...names were like a dirge to the war-weary Italians. First it was Eritrea, then Somaliland, then Ethiopia and Cyrenaica. Last week the one Italian venture into empire that was worthy of the name was gone, too. Ancient Tripolitania, gleaming with modern roads, watered by giant aqueducts, colonized with thousands of eager peasants, had fallen to the Allies (see p. 26). Italians had only the sands blown across the Mediterranean by the sirocco to remind them of the 1,239,112 sq. mi. of African empire they had owned...