Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zeesen: "The prominent Italian military expert, General Bellati, reports that the strategical importance of the conquest of British Somaliland lies in the removal of the continuous British threat to Ethiopia...
...remembered the day when he pinned gold wings on Bruno's chest to make him, at 17, the youngest pilot in Italy. He remembered what the generals said about how the lad acquitted himself on bombing missions in Ethiopia. He remembered the speed records, the flight to Brazil. He remembered the necessity of recalling him from the Balearics during the Spanish war, because the Reds seemed to be gunning for the boy. This son was the real flyer. It was Vittorio, not Bruno, who made a spectacle of himself describing bombs as "budding roses," killing as "exceptionally good...
...Ethiopia, Libya and Tunisia would be given to Italy...
Nonetheless, Teheran and Tabriz, the Shah's second city, are reported swarming with Nazi secret operatives ("spending millions of pounds" say the Russians), who have filtered in from Iraq, Syria and Ethiopia. They are accused of gunrunning, blackmailing and bribing Iranian officials, conducting training schools for spies to work in India and the Near East...
...dreaming up antics for a French flier he referred to as "Albert le Screwball." He fled before the Nazis in France, was in London during the worst bombardments. The wheeze of his laughter was never stilled whether he was jaunting in Ireland, following the British in North Africa and Ethiopia, or covering a sea battle in the Mediterranean. He decided it was time to come home when his leg was crushed after a mob of excited Egyptians in Cairo pushed him from a train during an air raid...