Word: ababa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini was concerned last week, his colonies of Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and newly-conquered Ethiopia ceased to exist separately. With swift strokes he divided his East African domain into five autonomous provinces under the supervision of Viceroy Pietro Badoglio in the new capital, Addis Ababa. The new provinces and their capitals: Eritrea (Asmara); Amhara (Gondar); Harar (Harar), Somaliland (Mogadiscio); Galla & Sidamo (Gimma). Il Duce also promised religious freedom to Moslems of his domain, returned the Ethiopian Coptic Christian Church to its old Egyptian affiliation...
Looking over his dispatches, thumbing through pages of confidential reports from all over Europe and the Near East, Benito Mussolini decided last week that the moment had come for a diplomatic retreat. For the first time since Italy's entry into Addis Ababa, he ordered his Ambassador to Britain, Dino Grandi, to pay a formal visit to Anthony Eden. The proper button was pressed, the Italian Press burgeoned with articles referring to Italy's long friendship for Britain, and II Duce himself received Correspondent Gordon Lennox of the London Daily Telegraph. Said...
...rest briefly and take his annual cure at the radioactive springs of Fiuggi. Actually things were growing too tense in Europe for Benito Mussolini to have his best soldier 2,000 miles away. At 10 o'clock on the morning of his departure Marshal Badoglio welcomed to Addis Ababa his old friend and colleague Marshal Rudolfo Graziani, handed over to him the authority to rule Ethiopia as "Regent." Fascist wiseacres wagered last week that Marshal Badoglio will not return to Ethiopia for months, that Marshal Graziani will soon succeed him as Viceroy...
Before leaving Africa, Marshal Badoglio had time to sit down in Addis Ababa, send off to Il Duce a long report containing an outline of a new system of justice for Ethiopia. The Viceroy suggested courts based on the extraterritorial courts of China, one for black Coptic Christians, another for white colonists and foreigners, a third for Moslems and a fourth for disputes between whites and natives...
Because George Lewis Steer, who served the London Times and the New York Times as their Addis Ababa correspondent, had ridden with a truckload of gas masks to the Ethiopian front and because he had sent out many a dispatch that grated on Italian ears, he was ignominiously booted out of Ethiopia fortnight ago. Because the reports of New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, who was attached to Badoglio's army, sounded sweet to Italian censors and because he had exhibited great bravery at the battle of Azbi last November, Marshal Badoglio last week pinned to his breast...