SLAVES AT TABLE.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19663, 24 August 1935, Page 9

SLAVES AT TABLE.

A GOVERNOR’S SHOCK. PRIMITIVE ABYSSINIA. Illustrating the ' primitiveness of Abyssinia as a State, Professor S. H. ■Roberts (Professor of History at Sydney University) told a story, at the Rotary Club lunch at Sydney, of a British Governor who once was entertained by the Governor of a neighbouring Abyssinian province. ! The Englishman felt bound to men- ' lion to his host that lie objected to being waited on at the table by slaves obtained from.his own territory, i 'Discussion of the Abyssinia crisis usually seemed to assume that the country was a well-organised , State, said Professor Roberts. Rather it resembled Morocco before the French went there, or the Sudanese tribes before British rule, or the interior of New Guinea to-day. It was a loose collection of savage tribes with a civilised centre.

nightly or wrongly, a feeling had been worked up that Italy was attempting lo bully a small Stale with rights under the League. Italy, however, had a ease, and what might he debated was her way of acting upon It.