Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lion's paw drew its thin line across Libya, across Ethiopia, across Albania. But when Benito Mussolini tried to make his mark in Greece, the paw began picking up thorns-until by last week Il Duce was badly in need of his Androcles, Adolf Hitler. The biggest thorn, the one which hurt even more than Libya, was being pressed home by the British in Ethiopia (see map). The seizure of Ethiopia in 1936 was what made Italy an "Empire...
...last week the many British drives in East Africa had resolved themselves into one campaign-an encirclement of Addis Ababa. When he took Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini's strategy was to send his main attack (Marshals De Bono and Badoglio) southward from Eritrea, and to meet it with a smaller containing attack (General Graziani) northward from Italian Somaliland. This time the British strategy was to bottle as many troops as possible in Eritrea and then converge on Addis Ababa from the northwest and south. The main British attack came from the south...
Democrat Whitaker accepted an Italian War Cross after reporting the Fascist conquest of Ethiopia, and Fascist bigwigs sorely embarrassed him by insisting that they had "nothing personal" against him, would not formally expel him. He demanded formal expulsion. Instead, red-faced John T. Whitaker was told with Italian finesse: "You are not expelled, but you must leave." Pressed, Italian officials finally set the time limit for Correspondent Whitaker's departure at "about ten days." To the credit of tall, slender, wavy-dark-brown-haired Oustee Whitaker is a recent realistic work Americas to the South (Macmillan; $2.50), which...
Haile Selassie, whom the British now call Highly Satisfactory, pushed on into Ethiopia last week with a new weapon -propaganda. Even in the Ethiopian bush this proved to be a potent factor, for the area into which the Negus was pressing was Gojjam Province, long a hotbed of native revolt against the Italians. Haile Selassie's organ of propaganda was a newspaper written in Amharic, called Bandarchen ("Our Flag"), bordered with the Ethiopian Imperial colors, mastheaded with the monogram of the Lion of Judah, and bristling with nationalistic slogans. Sixty camels, with armed escort under a British officer, carried...
Benito talked a great deal about how gloriously the lion-hearted Fascisti had departed from Libya and Greece. It was all the fault of the British for attacking too soon, said he. Besides, Italy had been fighting in Ethiopia and Spain. Besides and besides, Italy was pretty brave to fight Great Britain at all ("a matter of pride that will live through the centuries"). Adolf had less explaining to do. He was full of confidence for the future: "Where British ships will appear, and where Britain will fight us, we will fight them and destroy them. . . . I have fought with...