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...hard-pressed Allies exchanged a few sharp jolts with him in northern Italy, Libya, Eritrea. The British clamped shut, at Gibraltar and Suez, the gates of their Mediterranean cage for Mussolini. This action cut off Italian East Africa from Rome. The Allies rounded up throughout the world such Italian merchant ships as did not scuttle themselves or hole up in neutral ports, including the Umbria en route to Eritrea through the Red Sea with 5,000 tons of air bombs and thousands of bags of cement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Italy in Arms | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Badoglio. Of these Army heads, far the ablest and most experienced is Pietro Giuseppe Vittorio Luigi Badoglio, 68, Senator, Marquis of Sabotino, Duke of Addis Ababa. He has fought in all Italian wars since Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia whipped the Italians in Eritrea in 1896 and he, a lieutenant of artillery, helped save the town of Adigrat. He was credited with planning the victory of Zanzur in 1911, which wrested Libya from Turkey. His capture of Mt. Sabotino from the Austrians in 1916 led to the victory at Gorizia and won Colonel Badoglio his generalship. His Second Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Italy in Arms | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: More Munich? | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: More Munich? | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Khaki Blackshirts | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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