Some things never change at America Farm, like how we like to go around helping people. Below, a funny fellow and restauranteer named Niccolo de Quatrrociocchi recalls how Ethiopia was liberated, back in the day.
“…But at last I started earning my bread, butter, caviar and champagne. However, even though, as one of our great Presidents used to say (in private), you can fool all of the people most of the time, things started to become a little dull around [New York] town.
It was different on the other side of the world. Over there, when in doubt, something is done about it. Ethiopa was becoming an aggressor nation and was putting itself in line for the Liberation Cure. Some of the natives were throwing spears at Fascist planes, and this sort of thing had to be stopped. That made the British and Americans talk about sanctions – which are all right in their proper place, just so long as the sale of gas and oil is not halted. It took some time to work out the ideal solution, but finally the peace-loving nations came to a working arrangement with the Fascists, sanctions were applied and Fascist legions rolled into Ethiopia on American gas and oil. So everybody was happy – except possibly the uninitiated Ethiopians…” from Love and Dishes by Niccolo de Quattrociocchi of El Borracho, copyright by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1950.