Seven years ago a sad-eyed little man in a black cape stood up in Geneva and shamed the statesmen of 50 nations. Italians booed and the rest looked away while Emperor Haile Selassie, dispossessed by Italian arms and mustard gas, cried out for international morality.
Last week the worn voice spoke from Addis Ababa. "Ethiopia," it said, "refuses to admit that a nation, which, through treachery and cowardice in 1935 and again in 1940 . . . declared war upon peaceful neighbors, can, at a moment's notice in her hour of defeat, claim the status of cobelligerent. . . . Ethiopia desires...
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