Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four and a half years ago, when Italy attacked Ethiopia, Peppino suddenly pledged his" unconditional support to my country in its hours of need." Subsequently there were other signs that he was home sick. Last September he opposed his brother Sante's recruiting of an Italian Legion in France because he was afraid Italy might join Germany. In December, when he thought Mussolini was for the Finns, Peppino got busy organizing Sante's legion to fight in Finland. He was too late...
...years H. R. Knickerbocker covered Central Europe. For a series of 24 articles on The Red Trade Menace, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, he won a Pulitzer Prize. Edged out of Germany after Hitler came to power, Knickerbocker colorfully reported wars in Ethiopia, Spain and China for Hearst's International News Service, saw German troops march into Austria, then into Czecho-Slovakia...
...issue was sharing press headlines with the Finnish war (see p. ig). In Florence students demonstrated in front of the British Consulate. In Rome six additional police guards were assigned to duty around the British Embassy. In London everyone sat tight but in Kenya Colony, which borders Italian-held Ethiopia, troops massed on the Ethiopian frontier. In Berlin Foreign Minister Ribbentrop took a special train for Rome. Then Britain exposed her hand...
...Italian supplied had ben depleted during the wars in Ethiopia and Spain, and what remained were squandered in Albania, Salvemini said. Fear of a French attack forced Mussolini to abstain from fighting. The British blockade of Italian imports has made it exceedingly difficult for the army to recoup its materiel losses...
Attack 5: France was an accomplice or at least a benevolent spectator when Japan attacked China, Italy attacked Ethiopia, Germany and Italy attacked Spain...