Word: badoglio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ominous fact was that the raid had taken place at all. It meant that the Italian force had won a crucial victory over Haile Selassie's own well-trained private guard, that Marshal Badoglio, hitherto scrupulously careful to avoid treading on French or British toes with an attack on Addis Ababa, was willing to risk everything again in a furious attempt to end the war before the Little Rains descended and bogged his armies in inaction...
They still were last week. As Marshal Badoglio's war machine lumbered and built roads and climbed forward, Italy's crack troops scaled the terrific 11,000-ft. heights of grim Mount Alaji (25 miles farther on) and the flag of Italy was again fairly up on the great Ethiopian Plateau...
...Marshall Badoglio still had no miles farther to advance before he would capture-as Lieut. General Napier did for Queen Victoria-malodorous Magdala, which was then the capital. Addis Ababa is 170 miles still farther on. The total advance last week was about 120 miles from the Eritrean border...
...cataclysmic was Marshal Badoglio's perfectly timed triumph that New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, one of the clearest-headed correspondents at Italian Military Headquarters, was able to cable his paper as follows...
Agreed the United Press: "Using his entire northern army of 300,000, Badoglio shattered the armies of Ras Kassa and Ras Seyoum. . . . The Victory saw Fascist legions occupy strategic Golden Mountain, giving Badoglio control of northern Ethiopia...