Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the Suez Canal. The exact number of troops was not revealed, but unofficial dispatches spoke of "several thousand"-infantrymen, Australian aviators, nurses from Scotland and England, R. A. F. and naval reinforcements. Meantime Britain awaited the real Italian campaigns: against Egypt from Libya, against the Sudan from Ethiopia...
...portion of the Axis war on Great Britain continued last week to simmer on the back of the Mediterranean stove, evidently waiting for the Vienna chefs to season their Balkan stew (see p. 24), for cooler weather in the Egyptian desert, for the end of the rains in Ethiopia, for Germany to hamstring the British at home or join in a Southern Theatre attack. To keep the pot respectably warm, the Italian Air Force performed a few missions...
...Machine-gunned a medical mission at Doro, deep in the Sudan, killing Dr. & Mrs. Robert Grieve of Spokane, wounding the Rev. & Mrs. Kenneth Oglesby of Brooklyn, when they ran out waving a U. S. flag. Apparently the Italians thought Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was hiding at the mission...
...portion of the Axis war on Great Britain continued last week to simmer on the back of the Mediterranean stove, evidently waiting for the Vienna chefs to season their Balkan stew (see p. 24), for cooler weather in the Egyptian desert, for the end of the rains in Ethiopia, for Germany to hamstring the British at home or join in a Southern Theatre attack. To keep the pot respectably warm, the Italian Air Force performed a few missions...
...Mandeb ("gate to the mandate"). To defend Somaliland, Britain had the Camel Corps, originally formed by British Marine officers to hunt Mohammed bin Abdullah, the "Mad Mullah" who for 20 years (1900-20) carried on a religious revolt until R. A. F. bombing planes drove him into Ethiopia. Chief gain for Italy in driving Britain from Somaliland would be prestige among the Arab peoples...