Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, one Little Hall resident was at the waterfront, embarking for Ethiopia and Haile Selassle's army when the thought of Miss Murray's savory Union fare brought him back to Cambridge...
...exceedingly fleet "strategic retreat" last week, Ethiopian forces under redoubtable Kassa Sebat executed the "maneuver of luring" Italian General Ruggiero Santini into ordering a whole Army corps to separate from the main Italian advance on the Northern Front and chase Ethiopians headlong, risky in Ethiopia's wilds...
Well satisfied on the whole with Ethiopia's brightest war week thus far, Emperor Haile Selassie, whom the knitting and poker-playing correspondents now call "Little Charlie" among themselves, flew to Harar on the Southern Front...
...Duce. He contributed quantities of bronze busts of himself for melting into bullets. A Royal Duke chipped in three pounds of gold. While priests collected wedding rings for the State, the Archbishop of Milan coined golden words: "God is with Italy and Italy with God! Our soldiers in Ethiopia are destroyers of the chains of slavery and assistants of the Lord...
With 1,000,000 Italians under arms, of whom some 300,000 are in Ethiopia, Dictator Mussolini announced that "to fight the Sanctions Siege in the economic trenches" furloughs of three months will be given to 100,000 soldiers. These will return to their farm or city jobs, on call at 24 hours notice to spring back to arms...