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...protect a savage and backward but innocent African people against being singed by the torch of civilization in Eternal Rome's hand, but the issue before the Cabinet was primarily how to protect British investments in the Sudan and along the Blue Nile which is fed from Tana, Ethiopia's great lake. Tana is so placed among rocky crags that a little earnest dynamiting would divert its precious waters from the Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains now dry but capable of becoming a second fruitful Egypt. The loss to British investors in the Sudan would be colossal, that...
...shall probably issue a joint memorandum suggesting a mild disapproval of you! All this seemed less funny this week as Greeks reported that a fleet of British bombing planes had swept over their islands bound for Africa. From Egyptian sources it appeared that an armed British sneak toward Lake Tana was indeed being prepared. The Admiralty announced that the Mediterranean fleet would "cruise" for the time being in such fashion as to command the mouth of the Suez Canal. Other British war boats strengthened Gibraltar and Red Sea points. Fifty miles off Italy on the British island naval base...
Interviewed by the United Press last week, Premier Mussolini pledged that Italy will completely respect "Britain's local interests in Ethiopia," referring to Lake Tana and the Blue Nile. Continued the Dictator: "England in the protocols of 1891 and 1894 recognized that almost the whole territory of Ethiopia is included in the sphere of Italian influence. These protocols are still in force. . . . Italy will pursue her aims- with Geneva or without Geneva or against Geneva. ... A nation on the march, as the Italian nation is today, cannot be stopped by the static conceptions of the life of peoples...
...Laval kept on asking if Mussolini would not retreat from his position of demanding Ethiopia for Italy, agree to formation of a joint Italo-Anglo-Franco Exploitation Company "for opening up Ethiopia," and promise to keep out of that part of Ethiopia in which Britain has keenest interest, Lake Tana which feeds the Blue Nile. This proposition they made conditional on the unlikely fluke that it would be accepted by both the Emperor of Ethiopia and the League of Nations. It must also be accompanied, stipulated Captain Eden and Premier Laval, by a declaration that "the independence of Ethiopia remains...
...chaste white lambs pomped with ribbons looked at the Pope last week, on the anniversary of St. Agnes' deathday. They had just come from blessing in the Church of St. Agnes on the Via Nomen-tana, Rome...