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...Amroth Castle, South Wales. This was once the country seat of Lord Kylsant, also a beefy John Bull, who went to jail for his irregularities as chairman of the Royal Mail (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et ante). There today Fat Chaps is respected as Mr. Francis M. Rickett, velvet-capped Master of Foxhounds of the swank Craven Hunt in Berkshire. The local lords and squires who hunt with him know nothing about oil, and little about Mr. Rickett. In Irak sheiks know him as one of Britain's slickest oil promoters. While "Lawrence of Arabia" was worrying about...
...wild Addis Ababa last week Mr. Rickett was not wasting his time. Nor was lean, hollow-cheeked Yankee Everett Andrew Colson, who sat across from Fat Chaps. In 1930 the Ethiopian Government, profoundly suspicious of Britain, France, Italy and all the great colonial powers, asked the non-predatory U. S. to pick a fiscal adviser whom Ethiopia could really trust. Obligingly the State Department supplied a list of young U. S. economists willing to work in Addis Ababa for a pittance more than they could make at home. From the list Mr. Colson was picked by the Emperor, hired...