Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wells. Motorized units on land engaged Italian advance units with the usual conflicting report of results. On the eastern Sudan front, British pressure by land and air was increased at Gallabat, Kassala and the roads to Italy's supply base, Gondar, in the Lake Tana region of Ethiopia...
...eyes and a million ears," director of OVRA (Italy's Gestapo); in Rome. Cop Bocchini called on Mussolini at noon daily to report on public opinion; on such a call in 1935 was said to have given the answer which decided the Duce to send his troops into Ethiopia...
...timetable out of date. The love of Empire which had caused Father Joe to break with Gladstone over Home Rule for Ireland was the driving force of Neville Chamberlain's life. It was a perverse and shortsighted love. It was said that he would sacrifice, not only Ethiopia, Spain and Czecho-Slovakia, but the half of the world that was not Britain's, to save the British Empire. Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even, as it turned out, at the cost of making it inevitable...
...shores of Tripoli." The Marine Corps is essentially a soldier outfit, but it is part of the Navy. That fact explains both the length and the breadth of its service. Since 1775 the Corps has served from Sumatra (against pirates in 1832) to Ethiopia (1903); from the Falkland Is-the Dominican Republic and Haiti, "intervened" again & again in Nicaragua. In World War I Marines fired the first...
...Italian Army is regarded by military men the world over with emotion ranging from contempt to hilarity-almost nowhere with admiration. But this was the first real test. Ethiopia, a war against men whose only armor was the loin cloth, was no test. Neither was the Italian picnic in southern France. No one knows how enthusiastically the campaign in Egypt has been pursued. But this was war, and all the world was watching. Considering the terrain, the weather, and the vigor of the brave Hellenes, the Italians were doing all right...