Word: badoglio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bothered to read the papers. All Italy was rapturously celebrating the return from Ethiopia of its Conqueror. His skin seemed suntanned to the toughness of leather. Moist upon it were the kisses of Benito Mussolini as II Duce embraced and smacked on both cheeks grizzled, tough, triumphant Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Viceroy of Ethiopia...
After the smacks Corporal Mussolini, who has never had himself promoted above his actual War grade, patted Marshal Badoglio affectionately on the back, presented a bouquet to the Marshal's wife, affably greeted their daughter. Later Emperor Vittorio Emanuele and Marshal Badoglio reviewed troops amid deafening plaudits near the Triumphal Arch of Constantine. Once home, the Viceroy of Ethiopia confided with an old soldier's simple candor the main reason why he did in fact return to Rome last week...
...bottled waters may be had in almost any city of the world. Last week learned Italians, sympathizing with their great Marshal, turned to the Italian encyclopedia, scanned the famous letter in which great Artist Michelangelo described how he was cured at Fiuggi in the year 1549 as Marshal Badoglio may well be cured. Wrote Michelangelo: "I am immensely better. For about two months I have been drinking morning and evening water from a spring about forty miles from Rome, which breaks the stone. It has broken mine and enabled me to pass a good deal of it in my urine...
...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...
...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 the Italian Medal for Valor. Wrote bemedaled Timesman Matthews from Diredawa last week before returning...