Word: zauditu
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...Waizeru Menen. Some years ago when Italy's sporting Duke of the Abruzzi visited Abyssinia, leaving behind him a gift war tank, he little realized what the present Empress would do with it. Her husband had been imprisoned in Abyssinia's Royal Palace by the then Empress Zauditu. Commandeering the tank, faithful Waizeru Menen sent it crashing through the Palace gates, rescued her husband. A woman of the world, Her Majesty journeyed with maximum pomp to Jerusalem two years ago (TIME, Oct. 9). Three hundred pounds of majesty beneath her State umbrella, symbol of Abyssinian sovereignty, she lent...
...Empress of Abyssinia, impotent little Zauditu, died soon after she received news of her consort's death. The real ruler of Abyssinia, whose puppet poor Zauditu was, is the Negus or "King" Taffari. He said that Zauditu died of "shock...
...Switzerland, a physician named Dr. Alexandre Garabedian who has been exposing certain Abyssinian matters before a committee of the League of Nations, said last week that when he was court physician to the Empress Zauditu, her nephew King Taffari twice asked him to poison...
Died. Empress Zauditu (Judith) of Abyssinia, 54, "direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba"; at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia; of "shock" on hearing that her husband, Ras Gugas Wali, had been killed in battle near Zebit...
This tale Doctor Garabedian tells. Six years ago he came to Abyssinia to practice the quieter forms of medicine. He became a favorite of Ras Taffari. But Ras Taffari wanted to become Emperor. Two persons were in his way. One was the Empress, Zauditu, daughter of the late Emperor Menelik II. The other was his mother-in-law, sister of the deposed (1916) Emperor Yasu...