Word: badoglio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reserves for which he had been frantically wiring ever since the Ethiopian War started were finally sent him month ago. His immediate superior was no longer the goat-bearded Fascist Politician Marshal de Bono, but a personal friend and fellow regular, stocky Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Best of all, he had just won the first definite complete victory of the entire Ethiopian campaign, and with regular army troops...
...advantage to Italy in the death of Haile Selassie was obvious, but Good Soldier Badoglio forgot one thing. When a soldier is wounded, he screams and sometimes dies. When a war correspondent is wounded his scream is heard around the world. Some 1,000 bombs dropped in the 17 minutes the planes circled over Dessye killed 53 persons, wounded 200. In the mêlée somebody shot Correspondent Georges Goyon of the Havas News Agency through the knee, and a Miss Petra Hoevig, Red Cross nurse serving in the Adventist hospital, broke her leg jumping into a trench...
...their two bombing raids did have one expected result. At a secret chieftains' meeting enraged Emperor Haile Selassie finally agreed that the time had come to meet the Italians in open battle, let it be known that he would hurry north to lead 600,000 men against Marshal Badoglio. Stupid indeed was the announcement of the Italian embassy in London in the face of dozens of eye-witness accounts...
...first time since he took command in East Africa, dapper, precise Marshal Pietro Badoglio received war correspondents in Asmara last week, told them what they might and might not say. Declared Italy's expeditionary Commander-in-chief...
...Duce's son-in-law, Count Ciano, but it was sad news for the World Press. Flung into a feudal land, correspondents in Addis Ababa and behind the Ethiopian troops have been able to send no first-hand news at all in eight weeks of warfare. Marshal Badoglio's order last week meant that all the elaborate mechanism of the international Press will take more time to tell the world less than did Editor Horace Greeley or Artist-Correspondent Winslow Homer, back of Manassas...