Word: abyssinia
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...most wonderful thing about Mussolini is his loyalty to his King." The words were spoken by King Victor Emmanuel III; by that time a lot of Italians would have disagreed. When Il Duce declared war against Ethiopia, il piccolo swiftly calculated: "If we win I shall be King of Abyssinia; if we lose, I shall be King of Italy...
Between wars, he has turned out workmanlike books (Eyewitness in Abyssinia, Two Wars and More to Come, The Fruits of Fascism) on the trouble he has seen. This week, in a new book (The Education of a Correspondent; Harcourt, Brace; $4) that is part travelogue, part personal history, Reporter Matthews gives a long-winded (550 pages) recital of all the hard lessons he has learned...
...Akweke Abyssinia Nwafor Orizu, of Manhattan, is a tall, black, sober young man of 24 who calls himself "Prince Orizu." He uses the title only to impress whites with the fact that Africa has traditional governments of its own. His hearers are usually sufficiently impressed to ask what he is prince of. His answer: Nnewi...
...book The War in Abyssinia: "The Fascist Nation . . . has understood and followed the course of the war with passion and faith. [The Fascist Nation] has given to the . . . world, as never before, a vision of such endurance, of souls so ardent, of hearts so devoted alike to their country . . . to their Emperor, and to their Duce, whose hand guides them...
...front strategy, for which the rest of their book is sprawling, disorganized documentation, emanates less from the armchair than from the bouncing seats of cars on Mussolini's roads. To watch the Fascist empire at war, the Packards jolted over thousands of miles of Neo-Roman roads in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, North Africa and Italy...