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Перевод: Abyssinia

[имя собственное]
Абиссиния [геогр.]

Тезаурус:

1. In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest.
2. The issue of sanctions against Italy was, therefore, to the fore and the evidence that Sir Samuel Hoare, the Foreign Secretary, had been negotiating with Pierre Laval, his French equivalent, to arrange a plan to settle the Italian - Abyssinian war by giving one-third of Abyssinia to Italy was not well received.
3. Therefore, formal protests were made when Hitler announced compulsory military service in 1935 and an increase in military forces, in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles, and when Italy invaded Abyssinia.
4. After the conference, the Socialist League continued to oppose rearmament, opposed sanctions against Italy threatened as a result of the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, and advocated a policy for the Labour movement of preparing for the "mass resistance to war", by which was meant a general strike.
5. On the issue of pre-1935 appeasement of Mussolini over Abyssinia he quotes from L. S. Amery's "diary", which is referred to in a footnote as My Political Life , vol. 3 (1955) and also refers to two other accounts of the same events in Viscount Templewood's Nine Troubled Years , pt. 2 (1954), and Sir Anthony Eden's Facing the Dictators (1962).
6. After that arduous battle, which succeeded in breaking Italian resistance in Eritrea, Winchester went on to serve in Abyssinia and the Western Desert.
7. Later, Anthony Eden, by that time in the Cabinet as Minister of the League of Nations Affairs though still a Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs, went to Rome with the intent of offering Abyssinia territory in Somaliland in return for conceding some of its own territory to Italy.
8. There has always been much speculation about the site of this region, guesses including East Africa, Abyssinia, Arabia, Spain, Armenia and Peru.
9. This was complicated but not necessarily made more difficult by a summer and early autumn dominated by the build-up of the dispute between Italy and Abyssinia, the first issue since 1918 to make the threat of European war vivid to the British people.
10. They intended to offer Mussolini control of two thirds of Abyssinia provided he would save their faces by allowing Haile Selassie to continue to rule over the remainder.
11. Pollitt thundered on about Italy's invasion of Abyssinia which he and his party roundly condemned.
12. For instance, some of the poem's ideas came from Milton's Paradise Lost , some came from Bruce's account of the source and fountains of the Blue Nile in Abyssinia, whence also came the Abyssinian maid playing on her dulcimer.
13. The reader who believes he is learning things about Imperial Ethiopia may be equally inclined to tell himself that this is a country of the mind, constructed on principles not very different from those of the Samuel Johnson who devised, for the Abyssinia of Rasselas , just representations of general truths and of a common humanity.