Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty miles from Aduwa, at the frontier, the sound of those bombs reached Italian troops already on the march. In the darkness, long before the bombers had left their Asmara base, white-bearded old General de Bono, commander-in-chief, had gone with his chief-of-staff, General Melchiade Gabba, and other staff officers to a cleared mountain top from which they could have an unobstructed view of the frontier river, the Mareb, and the rude camel tracks leading up to the mountains and Aduwa...
Over the river, the Italians formed three columns. The left one swung east to Adigrat in an effort to encircle Aduwa from the left. To General de Bono, peering at maps, puffing cigarets on his cool mountain top, came the word: Adigrat had been captured almost without opposition. Italians sweeping into the town found it deserted of everything but old men, women and children, all of them painfully undernourished. The country had been swept bare of food for the warriors now hiding in the mountains. On to Aduwa...
...hornet's nest than have permitted Parliament to meet. Electric in the air of Paris was a feeling that, if France is not to drift further and further to the Left, she must jog Right in the present crisis. That is, her own Fascists of the Croix de Feu, which has no connection with either Mussolini or Hitler, must raise their own standard under Colonel François de la Rocque and prevent the Socialists and Communists of France from turning the French Government and the League of Nations against Italian Fascism. Thus for the first time was seen...
With lean Colonel de la Rocque ordering the youths of the Croix de Feu to mobilize all over France in a series of ominous mass meetings, Newspundit Henri de Kerillis declared in L'Echo de Paris: "An order for mobilization against Italy, even a partial one, an act of war, even limited to a simple act of aggression toward Italy, would create in France a violent commotion of bloody, of desperate resistance and an atmosphere of civil...
...Miller, United Press War Correspondent No. i, who got his news training in Chicago, remembers Mussolini as a fellow reporter at the Cannes Conference in 1921. Last week Newshawk Miller witnessed the start of the invasion of Ethiopia from the mountain-top observation post of skinny, goat-bearded General de Bono, sent an exclusive dispatch by wireless from Asmara (see p. 19). The message reached Rome before official dispatches, was relayed to London by telephone, thence by cable to New York and all U. P. wires...