Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...represented showed the core of their ambition: They wanted a conservative, disciplined, monarchial Italy. They were not averse to keeping the gains of their league with fascismo. They still spoke of the "King Emperor," a title bestowed on the head of the House of Savoy after the conquest of Ethiopia...
There is no doubt that U.S. and British bombings have created panic and terror in Italian cities ; that in their desperation the Italians have cursed the men who bring the bombs, forgetting that Italian bomb ers were active in Ethiopia and Spain and that Mussolini insisted on sending a token bombing force over Britain during the blitz. This made little difference to Mussolini. He fobbed off the British as "at least civilized, because they are Europeans," knowing that his people already have a well of resentment against the British to draw on. The vigor of his campaigns against...
...airmailed articles (to save cable tolls) are angled for publication six weeks after writing. They are bright vignettes-a picture of the five Italian bootleggers who supply the U.S. Army in Ethiopia; American soldiers borrowing the instruments of a Calcutta dance band and giving Calcuttans a taste of boogie-woogie...
...film is both education and propaganda. In one hammering hour, it not only sketches recent world history from the Mukden Incident to the conquest of Ethiopia; it also makes the first impressive attempt in a U.S. film to present the theory and practice of Fascism. The picture works under several handicaps: 1) the broad contents of its story are wearily familiar to many; 2) the territory which must be covered is vast and intricate; 3) the teaching method-that of the illustrated lecture-means that the enormous power possible in screen images is dominated and reduced by words. But against...
...with Brigadier Daniel Sandford, took charge of the revolt in Ethiopia, raised a force of 1,000 Sudanese and 2,000 Ethiopians which disposed of 40,000 Italians...