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...Sting No. 1. The British were blandly asked to provide Haile Selassie with "safe conduct" back to Ethiopia through the backstairs route of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a most embarrassing request which Mr. Coison made not privately to Mr. Eden but by whispering it among Geneva correspondents. His story was that one of the Emperor's sons is already trying to get back through the Sudan, encountering "trouble" from the British...
...Sting No. 2. The Emperor sent to sit in the League Council one of his most famed generals, Ras Nasibu, who for months held the Italians at bay. "The Emperor has retained all his rights," declared the Ras. "The Emperor has never ceased and does not now cease to demand from every one of the States that have signed the League of Nations Covenant execution of their promises made to Ethiopia, which are clearly set out in the articles of the Covenant bearing the signature of every member state...
...Sting No. 3. The Selassie Brain Trust told everyone that Ethiopia has been "less than half conquered." that there is in the country a native Ethiopian Government with which they are "in communication" wherever it is, and that Ethiopians are still fighting the Italians as hard and as often as they can, considering that they have scarcely any ammunition...
...Thus the sting was drawn from one Republican criticism before it could be drafted into the platform at Cleveland. Lest the extraction of the sting should be missed, the President expounded at his press conference his idea that all big farmers should have their benefit payments restricted...
...Women: -"The desexed female bee workers throw the drones out and sting them to death. The white ants don't even trouble to rear them. Well, we have started on the way in our public school system. Once boys were taught by school masters. Now we insist on supposedly sexless females, and if they marry normally we throw them...