Word: eritrea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to make a swing around France's North African possessions to promote "empire solidarity," France's East African colonists in French Somaliland were suddenly thrown into a panic by reports that 80,000 Italian troops were about to march over the border from Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia) and seize the country. As long as 18 months ago, Paris colonial officials noted that detachments of Il Duce's troops had occupied areas on what was probably the French side of the ill-defined French Somaliland-Italian East African border. For weeks the fascist...
...Italian Premier Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval signed a treaty ceding to Italy not only a piece of desert south of Libya but a strip between French Somaliland and Italian Eritrea which would have given Italy a position on the Gulf of Aden, the island of Dumeria in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and a share in the French-owned Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad...
...appropriated by Il Duce's order is $8,000,000 to build as rapidly as possible seven great arterial roads linking Addis Ababa for trade and strategic purposes with all key cities of the Empire. Merged under the Viceregal Government with Ethiopia are the onetime Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland...
...employ for prevention of typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera. Sir Aldo shipped to East Africa tons of quinine for malaria, tons of serum tubes for tetanus, gas gangrene and snake bite, and 18,000 hospital cots. He covered suspected water holes with petroleum, fumigated camps, provided good drinking water, dotted Eritrea with hospitals and laboratories. The Italian Army fought under unprecedentedly thorough medical care...
Last winter world headlines told of Italian hospital ships unloading thousands of Italian sick in secret sick dumps on the island of Rhodes, of countless Italian crosses on the plains of Eritrea. Sir Aldo smiled. Last week, arriving in Addis Ababa, he made his health report on the Italo-Ethiopian...