Cross & Ras

London newspapers last week began carrying items of a sort which they had omitted until His Majesty's Government recently began to take a line more friendly to Italy. Few weeks ago "Italian atrocities in Ethiopia" were big journalistic stuff, especially when they were supposed to have been committed against the Red Cross. Last week equally big news in England was eye-witness testimony by Ebenezer Ralph Hooper, M. D., a member of the American Ambulance Mission in Ethiopia. Speaking at Leeds, terse Dr. Hooper said that Benito Mussolini had been right in claiming that the Ethiopian high command deliberately misused the Red Cross for purposes of war. Original offender was Emperor Haile Selassie's redoubtable General Ras Desta Demtu, according to Dr. Hooper, who declared: "We were making a hurried retreat. Ras Desta Demtu commandeered a Red Cross truck and loaded it with ammunition. The truck fell into the hands of the Italians, and it was shortly thereafter that they decided to bomb Red Cross ambulance units."

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