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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', February 15, 1935
Mussolini lays claim to Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
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By Low, 'Evening Standard', May 10, 1935 |
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', July 2, 1935
Civilization
Solemn pledge not to use war as an instument for policy
Signed -- Mussolini Big Chief of Italian Tribes
Backward Warrior: - "White woman no understand. Me Big Chief can write but not read. Must obey call of national honor."
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', July 24, 1935 |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', August 15, 1935
Britain and France secretly agree to give Abyssinia to Italy.
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', August 22, 1935
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', August 31, 1935
The Emperor of Abyssina, Haile Selassie, appealed for help to the League of Nations.
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', September 4, 1935
The League ordered its members to impose sanctions. These sanctions were fundamentally ineffective as they excluded an oil embargo - the only true sanction to halt the Italian war effort.
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', September 16, 1935
By testing the waters, Mussolini was also challenging a British vital interest.
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', October 4, 1935
Italy's Mussolini invades Ethiopia on October 1, 1935.
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', October 11, 1935
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', October 16, 1935
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', October 28, 1935
Shutting the stable door after the horse (Mussolini) has bolted.
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', December 13, 1935
Depected: Laval delivers Haile Salassie to Mussolini's Christmas stocking.
The British Foreign Secretary, Samuel Hoare, and the French Prime Minister, Pierre Laval, concocted a secret treaty (the Hoare-Laval Pact) which agreed to carve up Abyssinia.
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Stone Effigy by Kennington
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that "black blizzards" swept across the Great Plains of the United States, stripping top soil in it's path.
By Herschel Logan, "The Prairie Woodcutter", Kansas Museum of History, U.S.A.
Caption: "Dust Storm" Kansas
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