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R. Y. S. EXCLUSIVENESS
The Royal Yacht Squadron, that last ditch of class, privilege, is living up to its reputation for ex- clusiveness.
At its meeting last month it elected one new member, who is a result of this rare distinction was
ABYSSINIA'S "LION OF JUDAH"
AN INTIMATE VIEW OF
RAS TAFARI
NEGUS COOLLY AWAITING THE ZERO HOUR
(By William J. Makin)
honoured with a headling and aTO-NIGHT he sits in that tion. but such revolts were paragraph to himself in a mom-barn-like palace at Addis quickly quelled To-day, this ing, newspaper.
Ababa, a lamp on the table, very astute ruler of Africa's That the news should receive and the yellow glow falling last empire has surrounded. such prominence will amuse every upon a mass of papers and himself with a group of Euro- body except the disappointed can-maps. He is planning desper-pean advisers who have brought. army and didates. It is safe to assume that ately, for the greatest crisis of the Abyssinian there were several for the "black- his career. A few hundred equipment to a very high stan balling" is furious.
miles away the Italian armies dard.
In the event of war, despite Any member can blackball any are gathering, ready to launch candidate, and, although all mem-themselves upon an invasion of the bombing of the capital, And only the which can be evacuated in a few Ibers may vote, the low percentage his country.
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of black balls needed to exclude plan germinated in the clever hours. Ras Tafari and his war- an aspirant gives the fallest play brain of this man of 44. can riors are capable of holding out to private prejudices.
hope to stem the Italian inva-in their mountain and desert: fastnesses in a much longer and
•'..sion.
Such is the Emperor Haile more powerful fashion than did Selassie L All his life he has the Rit's in Morocco.
The Emperor has been called Abuses of this power have been had to plan scheme and fight frequent in the past. They have to retain his position as the a Brown Napoleon, and there is aroused the indignation even of ruler of Africa's last empire some trath in the high-sound- BYS members.
Fate has played strange tricks ing title. The story of his rise There is the classic remark of with him And now he is called to power is more amazing than a former Lord Chancellor, who upon to challenge Mussolini, any African adventure novel
Emperor's Aunt. was himself a member and who, the most aggressive of modern
It tells of a brown empress on learning of the exclusion of a dictators. highly eminent
ex- Ras Tafari was born the las cunning and as ruthless in claimed: "This club is run by aleleventh of a family of eleven her dealings with men as Cleo- died. His patra herself, of two great lot of old dodderers who have All the others
mother, a Wollo aristocrat, told armies meeting with spears, of neither teeth nor boats."
It is not long since, one outraged him that if he lived beyond the the sudden appearance in the and indignant Minister threatened age of 22 he would achieve a sky of aeroplanes 'spattering The age of 22 death with modern machine- the eating of the sacrificial raw to look into the legal right of the high destiny. meat should begin to spread S. to fit the coveted White saw his mother's prophecies guns, of a tank ploughing its {among those millions of natives
partly confirmed in a startling way through the doorway of Ensign who are so liable to catch the
He went out sailing the palace of the Empress, and This courtesy dates back to the manner. contagion, and to whom it is
Napoleonic wars, when the Ad-on the treacherous Lake Tsana out of the chaos emerging the peace that is the unnatural miralty invited private yacht With him were 21 companions directing genius-Ras Tafari Ras An Old Testament battle story capsised. boat The It may seem the very 'acme
Tafari only survived. No won-completed with Great War of optimism to continue to
der the figures 11 and 22 have machines.
state
candidate,
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A sub-editor cannot be ex-jentertain any hope that a mur- pected to be an encyclopaedia.derous fight can still be avert- and the next best thing is to fed; but one of the most won- have enterprise; but it was an derful things in this whole in- exceptionally wide miss when acident has been the discipline
"I bought some sheets to-day. Shall cable about Ethiopia the other which has kept these wild tribes. day was allotted a heading to from giving provocation which I put them down in my budget as the effect that the Ethiopians would give a colourable excuse cover charge or overhead
raw for war. And on the other side had begun training meat. The ceremony referred it must be noted that every dis-
“Jane,” said a lady to her servant, to is practically universal in patch of additional troops has you have broken more than your Africa
the primitive had the result of increasing the wages amount to. What can be done among tribes, and there is some evid-concessions offered, until now to prevent this?”
"I really don't know, mam,” said ence to show that it was at one it appears that conquest itself time in the distant past prac would hardly add anything to Jane, unless you raise my wages." tically universal As an item the prize that could be won of news bearing on the question Baron Aloisi has been in touch Tunes by Chopin, Beethoven, and whether there is going to be both with his own war it was quite as important with the negotiations; and it is Were heard in the town opry houss. as some of the speeches that not likely that he would set off for Rome to submit the latest have been cabled over.
chief and
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a special significance for him It begins 14 years ago. A Now, at the crisis of his career, revolution had swept Abyssinia, those numbers again obsess the Emperor Lij Yaser was in the hands of the rebels, a him. He is just 44.
woman had seized the throne.. Broken-Down Palace
A ruthless, determined woman. I once sat and talked with Zaudita was the daughter of a this little bearded man in his former Emperor. She had been broken-down palace in Addis married four times. When the Ababa. Clad in an ordinary throne came into her hands she dressing-gown over which did not hesitate to divorce her straggled a beard, he was in fourth husband. Ras Guksa singular contrast to the gor- because he was not of royal geously-robed, jewel-bedecked blood.
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and crowned figure that I had
had no desire for a husbandless
seen a few hours previously. At the same time, Ethiopia
I had sat in an incense-stifled cathedral among a galaxy of European representatives in queen Someone had to be cluding the Duke of Gloucester, appointed regent. And here Prince Udine of Italy, and the Brown Napoleon appears. Ras Tafari was the nephew Marshal Esperez of France - A
of this ruthless woman. He went about among the chiefs uniforms and rich native Lasts Longer
dresses Aeroplanes of all and had himself proposed. He Mother: "Now, Henry, look at your nations had droned overhead was elected regent, not without
feared himse dirty hands. And it was only half an Proclamations had been scat-misgivings by his aunt, who hour ago that you washed them.""""" tered Guns had boomed.
"Yes,"mother, I can't un-1] derstand it, but your washing stays Banquets of raw meat for the
Henzy:
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The essence of the ceremony terms if it had already been And a rollicking, symphonic mauss glittering array of military is that the ox or oxen shall first decided to refuse all terms have been sanctified by elabor whatsoever. There is still a ate heathen incantations, and chance that all this manoeuvr that the carcase shall then being has been prompted by a cut up into small portions, so spirit of bargaining and the that a morsel may be given to wish to show contempt for the the number of men participat- League and its mission of peace ing. The Headman or eldest If so, Il Duce has pushed things on ever so much longer than mine populace had left the gutters quietly consolidated his power- of a large family group may to the verge of peril. It seems does." cut off a fairly large portion, that Enssia and Denmarkman but he will proceed to divide i odd pair-hold that the pro- up; and it is rare that any por-posal of the Committee of Five tion will exceed a square inch. Is not such as should fairly be All those who eat a bit of the presented to an independent sacred beast are bound to each State, and it is now quite doubt
Haile Selassie other to fight together without ful whether regard to danger or death; any would be obeyed if he ordered participant who played the his troops to disband
own
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Berlin, To-day. Explaining the reasons prompt-]
red Now all was over, and I The chiefs came to look upon The sat facing this little bearded him as a brilliant man
years helped him. In October man in his draughty palace!
While we talked, he caressed 1928, he made a dramatic bid The Empress" a white spaniel at his feet for the throne. have promised myself to visit realised the strength behind your country again." he smiled. Ras Tafari and fearing an
revolution, decided to "But at the moment, my work other
Ras Tafari was is here and the future is in compromise
given a province of Ethiopia God's hands.”
He was made King of Shoa
Plotting Begins
From The Amharie
He spoke through an inter-
coward would be for ever dis It must be remembered that graced arid an outlaw in modern diplomacy bargains
The Brown Empress realised Archaeologists find in this cere-may be made that have no
the ing the new laws first announced preter, suggesting that his that this ambitious nephew mony the origin of many of our obvious connection with
customs in which a matter in hand. Europe has at Nuremberg, the National-So-knowledge of English was un-would not be long content with between the cialist Party Korrespondenz states equal to a long conversation a mere province Sooner or "loving-cup" or common meal is been divided the prominent feature; at any theory of "collective security" that Jews are only guests in Ger Yet, when the interpreter made later he would make a bid for rate it is only resorted to on on the general basis of the many, the same as are non-Jewish a mistake in translating from the throne itself. And actually the Emperor Ras Tafari was King of Abys important occasions. It indi- Covenant, and the plan, of foreigners, but guests in a special the Amharic, cates at this stage of the pro-"regional alliances, of which sense since they have no territory quietly interposed the right sinia. The people already look
ed upon him as King, English word. ceedings that the tribesmen the leading idea is that only of their own
(Continued on Page 3) He began to question me have made up their minds that those countries that are near Numerically they are a minority,
fight is coming, and that they enough to have an immediate but this minority, it is asserted, closely regarding European
Particularly did hel must resist to the last
interest in mutual protection is not a minority within the mean affairs Another aspect of the same shall bind themselves to take ing of international law. For reveal an interest in military rite is that the Ethiopians, active part in a war of defence whereas equality of rights is and aeronautical matters. He whose Christianity is not more Great Britain up to now has in-granted to other minorities, the himself possesses a three- than skin deep, have, under the clined to the latter view, from Jews, it is stressed, are excluded seater aeroplane and fies above stimulus of war-fever, reverted fear of undertaking responsibi- from this privilege and regarded his ramshackle capital of Addis to what is known to them all lities that she could not dis- from the legal standpoint as for to be a heathen custom It charge. It would be even now eigners. Trans Ocean Service.. must have been in abeyance for possible to make an offer that several generations; but they Italy would be only too glad to are not the only fighting race accept The quest on is that begins to see red as war whether Great Britain is ready draws near the expressions to change her policy; and even "to go berserk or "to run if the Government were ready, amuck? express the same con- there would ren dition
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