Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Looking over his dispatches, thumbing through pages of confidential reports from all over Europe and the Near East, Benito Mussolini decided last week that the moment had come for a diplomatic retreat. For the first time since Italy's entry into Addis Ababa, he ordered his Ambassador to Britain, Dino Grandi, to pay a formal visit to Anthony Eden. The proper button was pressed, the Italian Press burgeoned with articles referring to Italy's long friendship for Britain, and II Duce himself received Correspondent Gordon Lennox of the London Daily Telegraph. Said...
...Office in Uganda and Ceylon. He was accustomed to spend half the year in London, where he was director of mycology in the School of Tropical Medicine, three months in the southern U. S. where he organized the schools of tropical medicine at Tulane and Louisiana State Universities. When Benito Mussolini summoned big, jovial Sir Aldo home to Rome in 1932 to found the Royal Institute for Tropical Diseases, it might well have warned the sharp-witted that Mussolini was interested in more than the natives of Italy's colonies. Before the Italian armies reached the hot, dank Eritrean...
Though the fighting ceased in Ethiopia weeks ago, London and Rome continued last week to rehash ugly stories concerning the methods and materials employed in that African war. What stirred Britons to the highest pitch of indignation last spring against Benito Mussolini was the fact that
...acted as an aerial chauffeur for his father ever since the beginning of the campaign. Officially the Marshal was returning to Italy, to rest briefly and take his annual cure at the radioactive springs of Fiuggi. Actually things were growing too tense in Europe for Benito Mussolini to have his best soldier 2,000 miles away. At 10 o'clock on the morning of his departure Marshal Badoglio welcomed to Addis Ababa his old friend and colleague Marshal Rudolfo Graziani, handed over to him the authority to rule Ethiopia as "Regent." Fascist wiseacres wagered last week that Marshal Badoglio...