Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next six days, saw the whole development of a modern military engagement as few men have ever done. About ten miles straight before them was Amba Aradam, the mountain that was Italy's immediate objective. Skirmishing parties and repeated airplane flights made it obvious that one of Ethiopia's greatest chieftains, Ras Mulugheta, was entrenched there in force. Sprawling sidewise to the Italian advance, Amba Aradam was of two parts: a jagged ridge known to the Italians as "The Herringbone" and, at the extreme right, a flat-topped peak called "The Priest's Hat." All the land...
...pitched battle three weeks ago with honest but inept Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Haile Selassie, Graziani took a long chance, cut a whole brigade of motorized cavalry loose from their base, sent them dashing north on half rations through some of the richest country in Ethiopia. Tactfully to stem the flood of personal publicity about Benito Mussolini's aviator sons, one of the first orders of Marshal Badoglio on taking command last November stated that henceforth neither the names of officers nor the movement of troops would be mentioned in dispatches. For his friend, Marshal Badoglio...
...around in Italian limousines and bathing in chianti," discovered with surprise on reaching civilization that it was themselves who physically and mentally suffered least. Dictator Mussolini, with the tendency of a onetime editor to hold reporters' lives cheap, let the boys on Italy's front get thoroughly Ethiopia-shocked...
...correspondent died in Ethiopia, Chicago Tribune's Will Barbour. Of him in Manhattan last week Emperor Haile Selassie's Public Relations Counsel Josef Israels II said, "I like to place Will Barbour among some of the other empire builders who are buried in African soil, because never in all the history of journalism has the press so swiftly, so expertly and so completely built an empire of news and enlightenment in a wilderness hitherto unpenetrated." This was one way of alluding to the fact that it remains impossible to obtain for love or money anything remotely approaching...
Sensation of Ethiopia today are newly arrived Moscow correspondents and cinemen representing Tass, official Soviet news agency. Seemingly supplied with unlimited funds and spending right & left, they say they are "preparing a complete photographic document of Ethiopia," were splashing vigorously about in Dessye last week making most elaborate shots of His Imperial Majesty for Bolsheviks to gape...