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There General Graziani had been able to trap the forces of well-meaning but none too skillful Desta Demtu in open combat, attack them simultaneously with tanks, planes and two divisions of infantry, one white, one black. Honest Ras Desta Demtu would be an ideal Quartermaster General if Ethiopia had a modern army, but he is a poor strategist. He made the mistake of entrenching part of his troops. Under the pounding of Italian guns they fell back slowly at first, finally broke and ran. Unsupported by eye witnesses, Italians exultingly claimed that they had killed 5,000 Ethiopians, advanced...
...liquor taxes, the Company communicated with the Governor of Colorado placing in his hands all of the facts at its command. He advised the Company to communicate with the State Attorney's Office, and as a result of this step State operators and McKesson officials arranged for a "trap" on McKesson property, as a result of which a "go-between," alleged to be working in the personal interest of the discredited State official, was arrested. Immediately upon the completion of a special audit of the affairs of the Colorado branch of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., the full amount...
...maker of the world's most superior mouse trap never had a more worn path to his door than that which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Budget Director Bell, Public Works Administrator Ickes, Works Progress Administrator Hopkins, Resettler Tugwell and CCChief Robert Fechner beat to the door of the Executive Office last week. Day after day they went, conferred, departed uttering only Delphic nothings to the Press...
...TIME, Dec. 16), thus: "The Italian people listen to words but base their judgment upon acts!" After the acts of the British in first holding out and then withdrawing favorable terms, the Fascist Press printed last week, and most Italians believed, that the whole maneuver had been an "Eden Trap." If Italy had walked into it by accepting the terms, Italians were told, the next British move would have been made by Captain Anthony Eden at Geneva to have the League of Nations reject the terms as morally odious and commence bargaining Italy down. In Italian eyes this week...
Ethiopia's Emperor, advised by his Maine Yankee alter ego, Mr. Everett Colson, set the counter trap of demanding in a cablegram to Geneva that The Deal be scrutinized by the entire League Assembly in which minor nations have the majority, though they have never dared to make effective use of it. If once he could get 40 or even 30 little nations squawking. Emperor Haile Selassie knew they could be counted on to make the world's welkin ring in his favor...