Abyssinia Crisis Abyssinia to Mussolini, so his troops were able to continue their war relatively unchallenged by the rest of Europe. Haile Selassie was forced into exile on 2 May. All the sanctions that had been put in place by the League were dropped after the Italian capture of the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on the 5th of May 1936. Ethiopia was then merged with the other Italian colonies to become Italian East Africa ("Africa Orientale Italiana", or AOI). Ethiopia never officially surrendered, and pleaded for help from foreign nations, such as Haile Selassie's . As a result, there were six
Jesus Was a Country Boy called “Jesus Was A Country Boy”, it’s very different, kind of a bold statement." The male narrator explains that Jesus was a country boy because of the lifestyle Jesus lived which he compares to that of a "country boy". Dan MacIntosh of "Country Standard Time" wrote "Walker is equally inept at theology, as this album's title track fails to help explain why bad things happen to good people, and "Jesus Was A Country Boy" isn't going to bring in any new converts." Cheryl Harvey Hill of "Country Stars Online" wrote that the song has "A very powerful old message is