Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destiny of Ethiopia has been sealed today, May 9 of the 14th year of the Fascist revolution. . . . Italy at last has her Empire. It is a Fascist Empire, because it bears the indestructible sign of the will and power of the lictors and fasces of Rome...
...Ethiopia the British have found that winning a campaign does not necessarily mean finishing it. The Italians have held out in isolated outposts, so as to pin down sizable British forces. Addis Ababa fell on April 6. Last week, twelve weeks later, the British took the stronghold of Jimma with 8,000 prisoners, including eleven generals. Still to be cleaned up: an area in the north, near Lake Tana, where there are 10,000 white Italians; two areas in the south, where there are altogether...
...nations voted to condemn Japan; Siam, the 44th, abstained. Mr. Matsuoka gathered his papers, stalked out, his suite scuttling after him. His arguments had failed to convince, but Japan got away with the Manchuria grab and the note he set at Geneva was echoed later by Italy over Ethiopia and by Germany over the Rhineland...
...Lost Ethiopia-but were firmly entrenched in Eritrea...
...lost control of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Italian Somaliland...