Word: badoglio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took four days of the hardest going for Correspondent Steer to get back to Addis Ababa. Yet Benito Mussolini expected Marshal Badoglio to cover the same distance with his cumbersome army in three days, so as to give the Italian people a spectacular victory on the anniversary of the founding of Rome (April 21, 753 B. C.). In this dilemma Marshal Badoglio yelled for his colleague in the south, General Graziani, to take the puck...
...Marshal Badoglio. squinting at his staff maps, knew that no matter how it might pain the House of Lords (see col. 3), a forthright poison gas campaign was the quickest and cheapest way of breaking opposition in a country where every herdsman has a rifle. The gassing began...
Then the Italian commander sent a motorized column to fan out westward toward the British Sudan border and Lake Tana on his right. For them the going was fairly easy. No fool politically, Marshal Badoglio gave command of this column to the Farley of Fascismo, ebullient Achille Starace, secretary general of the Fascist...
...tractable enough to fill the Fas cist Press with soothing statements that Italy had had every intention of maintaining Britain's rights to the waters of the lake. "After all," announced a Foreign Office attache, "Britain's interests in Ethiopia are hydraulic, ours are territorial!" Marshal Badoglio, smiling over the pins in his staff map, was now eager to tackle Haile Selassie himself. Pencil in hand, the Marshal explained: "The Emperor has three choices. To attack, and be defeated; to wait for our attack, and we will win anyway; or to retreat, which is disastrous for an army...
Twelve hours later his men were beaten back with heavy losses. Next day was spent in wary shadow-boxing on both sides. Haile Selassie formed his Imperial Guard on Chessad Ezba, a mountain eight miles from Lake Ashangi, spread his support on surrounding peaks. Marshal Badoglio had assembled 200 bombing and pursuit planes. He had Alpini and Sabauda Divisions facing the Ethiopian Guard and was able, after an amazing forced march, to whip another division of leather-footed Eritrean native troops along Haile Selassie's right flank...