Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operation was what no Great Power would give Ethiopia last week except in words (see p. 18). The blatant announcement last fortnight that Haile Selassie had conceded subsoil rights in half his empire to British Promoter Francis Rickett and his mysterious backers (TIME, Sept. 9) was universally called by statesmen and financiers last week a "nigger trick." Anything but smart was this dusky African potentate's pathetic belief that President Roosevelt would defend Ethiopia against Italy as a result of the midnight signing of the Rickett concession. Equally footless was his loss of temper in accusing Secretary Hull of "gross...
...Atrocious Practices." Next in Geneva the Italian case against Ethiopia was opened before the Council by Baron Pompeo Aloisi with a harsh, heavily documented address, while Italian aides passed around among the statesmen pictures taken in Ethiopia. As Captain Anthony Eden and his entourage fingered them, a Briton snorted, "The most revolting exhibit ever produced!" Wrinkling his French nose, Premier Laval remarked, "Nice, aren't they...
...belong to the League of Nations. Next day, on telephonic orders from Benito Mussolini, the Italian delegates began a melodramatic routine of jumping up and marching out of the League Council chamber whenever Ethiopian delegates arose to speak. This move backfired, won extra courtesy from other Great Power statesmen for dusky Ethiopian Chief Delegate Bedjirond Tecla Hawariate. Once when Mr. Hawariate, Premier Laval and Captain Eden had to enter the same door, such a contest of bows began that it seemed none would get in. Finally the Ethiopian entered first, next the Briton, last the Frenchman...
...could achieve some of the glory Benito Mussolini seems to want, for the savage Ethiopians would not take Civilization lying down. On the other hand this form of League "mandate" to Italy would cut off Ethiopia's Emperor from all help by the Great Powers and should, so Geneva statesmen said, "shorten the war." This they felt would be something gained, adding that the League would also have "localized the conflict outside of Europe...
...third person he says: "He has observed practically every form of human activity. He is acquainted with the poor and the rich, the sound and the diseased, the learned and the ignorant, the weak-minded, the insane, the shrewd, the criminal, etc. . . . farmers, proletarians, clerks, shopkeepers, financiers, manufacturers, politicians, statesmen, soldiers, professors, schoolteachers, clergymen, peasants, bourgeois, and aristocrats. The circumstances of his life have led him across the path of philosophers, artists, poets, and scientists. And also of geniuses, heroes, and saints. At the same time, he has studied the hidden mechanisms which, in the depth of the tissues...