Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat, 22, of the Royal Bombay Sappers, was told, one day during the British conquest of Ethiopia, to clear a road of Italian mines. The Italians had sown the dangerous metallic seeds as prodigally as some hardy grain. In one stretch of four miles Lieut. Bhagat dug up 14 separate mine fields each containing 300 mines spread over 250 yards on each side of the road...
...tall young man stepped into the sunlight from the cavernous door of Fort Toselli above the unfinished cemetery. He was Prince Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, Governor General of Italian East Africa, Viceroy of Ethiopia, and he had spent the night all alone in this echoing fort deep in the mountains of the Empire Rome had sent him to rule...
...World War I. Then he had worked hard as an agent in the expansion of the Empire, in the Congo and in Libya, where he sadly disapproved of General Rodolfo Graziani's ruthlessness. At home in Italy he was the most popular member of the royal family. In Ethiopia he wanted to simplify the Italianate bureaucracy along British colonial lines, and just before assuming his duties in 1937 he visited his old friends in England...
...steps that led to Britain's isolation: the knifing of Locarno (when Britain would not support France against the German occupation of the Rhineland); the Anglo-German Naval Pact of 1935 (when Britain made a deal behind France's back); the Hoare-Laval deal over Ethiopia (when Britain sabotaged the League of Nations); British hostility to Franco-Russian alliance (when Britain first alienated Russia); British support of Belgium when she broke her British and French alliance (when Britain made it clear that she wanted to avoid war in Europe); British encouragement of the Henlein party in Czecho-Slovakia...
...offered the Duke of Aosta peace terms. The Duke was in such a hopeless military position that he must have eyed the terms wistfully, even though accepting them would have meant giving up his much-loved gaudy uniforms; but he had strict orders not to give in-having lost Ethiopia, he might as well detain as many British as possible as long as possible...