Word: eritrea
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Benito Mussolini loves maps. But when his eye leaves Italy, it finds only Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland in Africa for Italian colonies. It is Asia, the East, that gives him the stuff for vast, cloudy dreams. What Japan has done in Manchuria, what France is doing in Yunnan, Italy may well do some day in the Orient...
...back to Rome, II Duce sent out a general call for all General Staff officers to assemble for a conference in the Palazzo Venezia. Meanwhile Italian papers were allowed to print something that they had known for many a week: Heavy drafts of Italian troops are being sent to Eritrea and Italian Somaliland to "guard" the Italian-Abyssinian border...
...fastest in the British navy, tore on toward Hodeida. Word reached British authorities in Aden that among the Saudite loot in Hodeida were great quantities of Italian-made munitions. The Red Sea is only 100 miles wide at Hodeida, and on the other side lies only partially pacified Italian Eritrea. Blushing at having backed the wrong horse, Italy dispatched the destroyer Turbine. France, too, was on the defensive, fearful lest the exploits of Ibn Saud, keenest sword of Allah, put wayward ideas in the heads of her Mohammedan tribes...
Belching clouds of smoke and cinders, His Majesty's locomotive tugged the royal train up and up, raised it a mile and one-half above sea level on the 75-mi. run to Asmara, Eritrea's capital, where natives of pure Abyssinian stock speak a language derived from ancient Geez...
...Asmara, which means "Good Pasture Place," King Vittorio Emmanuele enquired minutely as to doings on the whole plateau, the "Plain of 1,000 Villages." Unfortunately Eritrea is again costing Italy dear. It was run at a loss for the first 30 years, began to break even in 1920, but has again become an expensive luxury for Italy and her ambitious, damn-the-expense Duce. Greatest achievement of Italians in Eritrea is to have introduced cotton culture in valleys previously thought incapable of growing cotton, then to have built capacious cotton gins at Asmara and Massawa. With cotton sunk like other...