Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians began this spectacular phase with their conquest of Ethiopia in 1935-36, continued it with their abortive drive from Libya into Egypt in 1940, surrendered the center of the North African stage to the Germans when Rommel arrived with his Afrika Korps in the spring of 1941. Other high points in the record...
...Rough, tough Rodolfo Graziani, second Viceroy of Ethiopia, who was chased by Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell across Egypt and Libya during the winter campaign...
Haile Selassie is looking forward to the arrival of a U.S. Lend-Lease observer, whose job will be to stimulate trade with Ethiopia, and to find out what Ethiopia can contribute to the Allied war effort. The U.S. representative will find the Emperor adamant on one point: he is determined not to allow foreign economic penetration or ownership that might further cloud Ethiopia's sovereignty...
Brigands & Beauties. The old Ethiopia goes its way. Along the new mountain highways, old-fashioned Ethiopian brigands lie in wait for British truck convoys instead of camel caravans, use hand grenades and rifles instead of spears and poisoned arrows. Ethiopians still farm with wooden, wife-drawn plows, still live in filth and squalor...
That was the time-May 5, 1936-when Italian legions completed their conquest of Ethiopia. Then Mussolini had bidden his proud followers to "lift up their standards, their weapons and their hearts and greet the new empire which after 15 centuries again reappears upon the fateful hills of Rome...