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Significantly, President Angell recalls more vividly than any other period of his life the year, when he was 11, spent with his parents in Peiping. President Hayes had made his father Minister to China. The sights and sounds of the legation compound, the stillness of the Orient under snow, the...
The Emperor's London destination was No. 5 Princes Gate, which he will share with the Ethiopian legation. Facing Hyde Park, this 27-room house is hard by the Persian and Afghanistan legations. Down the street, in case of trouble, is the Hyde Park Barracks of the Royal Horse...
Eventually the parade reached the Italian legation where Marshal Badoglio set up his headquarters. Everywhere streets were deserted, houses burned, shops looted. Hundreds of bodies littered the roadway, stiff, stinking, crawling with flies. Some had been hideously mangled by wild dogs and hyenas, which skulked in from the eucalyptus forests...
At first the major-mayor had little to do but try to make his new palace habitable. Marshal Badoglio, delegating none of his powers, went about restoring Addis Ababa's water, light and telephone services. Small bands of bandits still lurked in the outskirts. Italian patrols were busy mopping...
For valor against the black mobs of Addis Ababa, Premier Albert Sarraut's Cabinet last week voted to promote France's Minister to Ethiopia Paul Bodard from a Chevalier to a Commander of the Legion of Honor. Simultaneously Mme Bodard was made a Chevalier. These non-political honors...