Word: badoglio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance was stupendous. The territorial advance was 75 miles. Nothing much except road-building happened for a month. Then the Italians pushed their advance 65 miles by taking Makale (TIME, Nov. 18). Nothing of a victorious nature continued to happen for three months. Then under newly appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio came the Battle of Enderta and the capture of Amba Aradam (12 miles) with Italian boasts that the Ethiopians under Ras Mulugheta were "in headlong rout" (TIME...
...Ethiopia, after the great Italian victory of Marshal Badoglio on the North Front (TIME, Feb. 24), the routed Ethiopian army of Ras Mulugheta was retreating in moderately good order across Tigre Province last week, but the fate of stragglers was hard...
Next obstacle to the Italians, towering 11,000-ft. Mount Alaji did not fall last week as Marshal Badoglio put every available soldier to working on roads and perfecting his service of supply for a fresh offensive. In Rome numerous Italian Senators heard the Papal Secretary of State, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, deliver an address which kept Fascists on pins & needles in their anxiety to hear that the Holy Father had at last come out wholeheartedly for Italy's war. They considered this to have come to pass when Cardinal Pacelli hailed Dictator Mussolini as "not only the Head...
Last Sunday every important foreign correspondent with Italy's Northern armies was summoned to Marshal Badoglio's advance base on the flanks of Amba Gheden a few miles beyond Makale. Hollow-eyed, worried, the Marshal motioned the correspondents to be seated, then spoke out with Rooseveltian frankness. "Not unreasonably, perhaps, you have complained of the difficulty of seeing what we of the fighting services have been doing all these past weeks. Now, gentlemen, you are to have the rare privilege of watching a battle, and it may prove to be a most important battle. From myself...
...chance, cut a whole brigade of motorized cavalry loose from their base, sent them dashing north on half rations through some of the richest country in Ethiopia. Tactfully to stem the flood of personal publicity about Benito Mussolini's aviator sons, one of the first orders of Marshal Badoglio on taking command last November stated that henceforth neither the names of officers nor the movement of troops would be mentioned in dispatches. For his friend, Marshal Badoglio broke that rule last week. The world quickly learned that leading the advance from the south were those swankest of regiments...