The don and the bluestocking have to live, so have the cowboy and the cook. Race Improvement : or, Eugenics : a Little Book on a Great Subject La Reine Helen Baker Men do so hate a bluestocking, she said once pensively to her friend Emily.
On October 3, 1935, Italy attacked Ethiopia from Eritrea and Italian Somaliland without a declaration of war. On October 7, the League of Nations unanimously declared Italy an aggressor but took no effective action.
Soon, Britain and even Russia joined in the game. Throughout the 1880s, Ethiopia grew stronger and stronger as the scramble for Africa went on around it. However, by the early 1890s, Menelik's plans began to unravel as war seemed imminent. In 1889, Italy claimed Ethiopia as an Italian protectorate.