Word: badoglio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formula of "honorable" division of Ethiopia "within the framework of the League of Nations." Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, however, is for keeping the ball of sanctions going a while longer and Dictator-Mussolini is all for faster spinning of the wheel by his new war chief. Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...sanctions applied by the League of Nations (with Britain applying the spurs and France tugging on the check rein) came into effect this week, Italy was so far from irresolute or bluffing that the greatest of her surviving World War commanders. Field Marshal Pietro Badoglio, was being sent to Africa to redouble the offensive on all fronts...
Trailing his glory Old de Bono is now replaced by the Army's idol and the King's close friend. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, greatest of Italy's surviving World War commanders and in 1928, when Mussolini had been Dictator for six years, created Marquis of the Sabotino, the mountain he captured in August 1916 during the Battle of Gorizia. In November 1917 he was made the public goat of Italy's most inglorious rout at Caporetto, but within the Army his Kudos as a commander did not evaporate and he became sole Sub-Chief-of-Staff...
...General Badoglio is said to have telegraphed allied Generalissimo Ferdinand Foch, in November 1918, in a code to which he knew the Germans had the key, a bluff proposal for a terrifying offensive on five fronts. Three hours after Foch telegraphed his approval in the same code, the Germans sued for Armistice...
Notice to Mutineers. Marshal Badoglio was sent to Africa last month by the Dictator to inspect particularly the Northern Front under Old de Bono's command (TIME, Oct. 28). He also visited the Southern Front on which General Graziani has been forging up toward Harar and Ethiopia's only railway, returned to Rome fortnight ago. Gossip has had General Graziani vexed by Old de Bono's reluctance to send him as many troops as he has asked for. What the dashing General in the South might not listen to from the Qtiadrnmvir, he will presumably...