Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object of British Lieut. General Napier was to punish a bad Emperor for having tortured some Englishmen. Benito Mussolini began his road-building and colonizing invasion of Ethiopia last October. Three days later Aduwa fell, followed by the fall of the Holy City of Aksum a week later. The emotional advance was stupendous. The territorial advance was 75 miles. Nothing much except road-building happened for a month. Then the Italians pushed their advance 65 miles by taking Makale (TIME, Nov. 18). Nothing of a victorious nature continued to happen for three months. Then under newly appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
After seizing Amba Aradam, the Marshal threw every soldier he could spare into Tembien Province, to the west of his main advance. There his right flank was being menaced by two of Ethiopia's greatest generals, the wily Ras Seyoum and Ras Kassa. If they could be annihilated, the world would be in a mood to agree that "the Ethiopians are licked!" Politically such a world opinion would do Italy the most good if it coincided with this week's arrival in Geneva of Captain Anthony Eden of Great Britain and his League colleagues to decide whether...
...Kassa's army in the Tembien region of Ethiopia, northwest of Makale, has been destroyed. He himself is fleeing for his life with a few followers. Now between the Italian forces and Addis Ababa all Northern Ethiopia lies open and almost defenseless. Only Emperor Haile Selassie's private army can offer resistance, and it is not expected to be serious...
Agreed the United Press: "Using his entire northern army of 300,000, Badoglio shattered the armies of Ras Kassa and Ras Seyoum. . . . The Victory saw Fascist legions occupy strategic Golden Mountain, giving Badoglio control of northern Ethiopia...
Correspondent Matthews went on: "Perhaps the Italians are not too sorry Ras Kassa has slipped through their lines. They are not afraid of him any more, and his influence in Ethiopia may become enormous. He is regarded as the greatest figure within Ethiopia, although to the outer world it was the Negus, Haile Selassie, who stood for his country. This correspondent has talked to many natives, as well as to many excellently informed Italian and British officers and officials, and all agree that Ras Kassa is the most powerful man in Ethiopia. Hereditary priest, ruler and maker of Kings, power...