Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corporal &Marshal. Meanwhile in Italy every newsorgan which reported the doings in London spoke, of Haile Selassie by his family name, "Signore Tafari." However, nobody much bothered to read the papers. All Italy was rapturously celebrating the return from Ethiopia of its Conqueror. His skin seemed suntanned to the toughness of leather. Moist upon it were the kisses of Benito Mussolini as II Duce embraced and smacked on both cheeks grizzled, tough, triumphant Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Viceroy of Ethiopia...
...promoted above his actual War grade, patted Marshal Badoglio affectionately on the back, presented a bouquet to the Marshal's wife, affably greeted their daughter. Later Emperor Vittorio Emanuele and Marshal Badoglio reviewed troops amid deafening plaudits near the Triumphal Arch of Constantine. Once home, the Viceroy of Ethiopia confided with an old soldier's simple candor the main reason why he did in fact return to Rome last week...
...broken mine and enabled me to pass a good deal of it in my urine. I must lay in a store of it and use it exclusively in drinking and cooking and change my way of living.'' After taking the cure at Fiuggi, the Viceroy of Ethiopia was slated to return to take up residence at Addis Ababa...
Seven months ago, when the Prime Minister needed to win Britain's last General Election, he turned the trick by having Anthony Eden appear dazzlingly in Britain's public eye as the Siegfried of Diplomacy, the handsome young man who was going to save Ethiopia from Italy with that flaming sword, the League of Nations. Having won the election Mr. Baldwin, who had created for "Tony" Eden the hitherto unheard of office of "Minister for League of Nations Affairs," sat back contentedly to let Ethiopia and Italy be dealt with in practical fashion by Sir Samuel Hoare, then...
...signed by Sir Samuel Hoare and M. Pierre Laval, with every prospect that it would be accepted by Benito Mussolini and adorned with the signature of Haile Selassie after a little suasion, "The Deal" provided in essence that II Duce should content himself with roughly half of Ethiopia and agree to the continued rule of its Emperor over the rest. Had "The Deal" gone through, Ethiopians would have been spared the horrors of wide spread poison gas warfare; Haile Selassie would have been reigning in Addis Ababa last week instead of being snubbed in London (see p. 20) ; and Britain...