Word: badoglio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem still bothering confused British newspaper readers last week was the color of the horse Marshal Badoglio rode into Addis Ababa. Wrote E. V. Knox in Punch...
...want to clear up this matter Of Marshal Badoglio's steed. Was it bright as the daylight or duller? Some dangerous doubts have been thrown On this animal's actual color, And the truth should be known. . . . There is growing unrest in the nation, The facts should at once be released: I demand a precise explanation Of the tint of Badoglio's beast: Was it mustard perhaps-out of pity For the traces of poisonous gas? Or did he ride into the city On a mule-or an ass? Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital...
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...
...first the major-mayor had little to do but try to make his new palace habitable. Marshal Badoglio, delegating none of his powers, went about restoring Addis Ababa's water, light and telephone services. Small bands of bandits still lurked in the outskirts. Italian patrols were busy mopping them up. One hustled around to the U. S. legation on an SOS from Minister Cornelius van H. Engert. Plucky Mrs. Engert took time off to tell reporters how during the days of rioting she sat knitting, with a loaded revolver in her overcoat pocket...
...Marshal Badoglio caused a great stir in Paris when he announced that he was taking over the French-owned railroad from Addis Ababa to Djibouti (see col. 3). Before long normal rail service to the coast was restored...