Word: tsana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian control of Abyssinia. Their neighboring colonies have suffered severely from raids by Abyssinian tribesmen. Italy would probably stop that. Nineteenth Century Britain was content to discipline Abyssinia in hard-fought border skirmishes. Since then she has acquired peaceably what she wants most in the country: control of Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile and life blood of the thriving Sudan cotton fields. Djibouti in French Somaliland is the port of entry for all Abyssinia, and France already controls the only railroad in the country, that between Djibouti and Addis Ababa. There is little reason for her to waste...
...staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with Ras Taffari to dam Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile, to build Abyssinian highways...
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