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MOHAMMED-Essad Bey-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Melodramatic biography by a writer who argues that Islam is "still the most vital world religion" and that its aim is now, as in Mohammed's time, the conquest of the earth...
...Ethiopian Government is abolished as such and becomes a German consulate, its diplomatic functions passing to the German Embassy in Rome. Amid ensuing international jitters, State Department officials in Washington intimated that it will now be "difficult" for "embarrassed" President Roosevelt to avoid recognizing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
...swank, sly predecessor of Hitler as Chancellor remains in charge of the German diplomatic mission in Vienna, which retains the status of legation, von Papen personally is raised to "Ambassador Extraordinary on Special Mission." With Germany taking de facto hold of Danzig (see p. 20) and Italy's conquest fast gaining de facto recognition, the new "Dictators' Diplomacy" was philosophized upon in Rome by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia. Wrote he of Adolf Hitler's order making Germany's Addis Ababa legation a consulate...
Thus the attitude of Italians toward conquered Ethiopia is Christian in its readiness to collaborate with and convert the heathen, and Roman in its drastic finality. The features of Benito Mussolini in the prime of his conquest are those of an Augustan Caesar. "It is our peace," he told his victorious legions, "Roman peace...
...Berchtesgaden served potent notice upon Europe- by the mere fact that it had been made- of an approach to each other of the two most powerful men in Central Europe today, Hitler and Mussolini. It was notice to Britain, France and the League of Nations that Italy's conquest of Ethiopia must receive official diplomatic recognition; that the "war guilt" under which Germans and Italians chafe must be erased in tribute to their "honor"; and that other wishes of these dictators must be granted-or else...