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Italy. First defense of the Italian raid came from the Marchese di Manchi di Bilici, Italian Minister to Stockholm, who cried from behind his police barricade: "Members of the Swedish ambulance unit in Ethiopia cannot expect to be as safe as if they were walking the streets of Stockholm...
...would like to know whether it is really expected that Italy should order her soldiers to put corks on the points of their bayonets and her aviators to fill their bombs with cologne water. . . . Stockholm should say whether it desires our aviators before proceeding with a bombardment to release a couple of comrades in a parachute to ascertain whether there is a Swedish physician in the neighborhood...
Near Dolo on the Italian Somaliland border of southern Ethiopia, a Swedish Red Cross unit was operating with the tribesmen of energetic Ras Desta Demtu, the "good" son-in-law of Haile Selassie. Italian aviators knew they were there, for only that morning copies of // Messaggero of Rome reached Stockholm, containing a paragraph from Italian Somaliland saying that Italian aviators flying over the southern front had seen people on the ground near hospital tents waving Swedish flags to call attention to their position. Yet last week a squadron of Italian planes circled over the Ethiopian camp to which the Swedish...
Months ago famed Swedish Humanitarian Eric Dahlberg warned his countrymen what might be the result of Haile Selassie's visit to Stockholm in 1925 as Prince Regent. On that occasion the little Ethiopian persuaded crack Swedish officers including General Virgin to resign from the Army, took them to Addis Ababa where they have trained Ethiopian troops. Said Herr Dahlberg: "We are not sure but what if Italian aviators fail to get our Swedish military instructors at Addis Ababa they may not try to get some of our Swedish ambulance units in the field...
...score; the U. S. tug-of-war team withdrew because British tuggers appeared in "monstrous boots"; Italian spectators were enraged when, after Marathoner Pietri Dorando had been dragged across the finish line, the race was awarded to the U. S.'s Johnny Hayes. In 1912, in Stockholm, the uproar concerned Jim Thorpe who was disqualified after winning the pentathlon and decathlon. In 1920, the U. S. team revolted at Antwerp because they disliked their food and living in an empty schoolhouse. In 1924, in Paris, a Frenchman was accused of biting an Englishman. In 1928, in Amsterdam, the French...