Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comprehensive, businesslike system which now keeps two stenographers and a pair of secretaries busy. Mrs. Dare Starck McMullin, an old friend of Mrs. Hoover, is the secretary who culls the Hoover mail. Secretary Paul Sexson, a handsome young Stanford graduate, goes through a dozen newspapers airmailed daily from the East and a sheaf of pertinent editorials which Hoover friends also airmail in from ail over the country. In addition, to keep the "Chief" posted on national and world affairs, the Stanford War Library, which Trustee Hoover helped to endow, is required to send in a daily report on the mutations...
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...
...into their mountains to try again. Belatedly the Italian flag went up on the ruins of empty Aduwa. First troops into the town were the 84th Infantry of the Gaviana division, who received the honor of leading the assault because they were the first troops to be sent to East Africa. With them they carried a strange piece of equipment, a fragment of a Roman column, brought all the way from Italy to be propped up in the market square of Aduwa in memory of the dead of 1896. By this time Rome's desire to celebrate was slightly...
Definitely Ethiopia cannot be conquered without Italian thrusts up from the south through Harar and in from the east, complementing the thrust down from the north which last week won Aduwa (see p. 19). With 150,000 Ethiopian troops under his command, Old Eagle Beak must try to defend Ethiopia's only railway. To Correspondent Stallings, after boasting through an old soldier's repertoire of battles, Wehib Pasha finally worked up to 1935 and boomed: "The English might conquer Ethiopia or even the French, never the Italians! "It is an axiom that even water will follow the English...
...greatest conquests-this people of heroes, of poets, of saints, of navigators, of COLONIZERS-that the world dares to threaten 'sanctions.' . . . Italy! Italy! entirely and universally Fascist, rise to your feet! Let the cry of your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in East Africa. It is the cry of Justice and of Victory!" Secreted in the Dictator's frenzy-rousing speech was a pledge of peculiar interest to Geneva statesmen who, while feeling that the League must save its face by voting "sanctions," desperately hope these will not provoke II Duce...