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.
In 1896, neighbors Britain and France assisted Ethiopia in resisting an Italian attack, but they did not want to interfere with Italy in 1936. Ethiopian army was poorly equipped, and any resistance against it would end quickly. Haile Selassie (middle with hat) exits from a meeting room in Geneva on June 30, 1936.