Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viceroy. Graziani was a natural for the campaign in Ethiopia. Laughingly he asked Mussolini whether he wanted Ethiopia with or without Ethiopians, and Mussolini replied that the task was to carry "Roman civilization" to East Africa. From Italian Somaliland he rode into Ethiopia at the head of an army of 60,000 men, a strapping figure in his desert uniform, wearing a monocle. His "Hell on Wheels" offensive bogged down. Finally, by liberal use of poison gas and bombs, he scattered Ras Desta's barefooted Ethiopians, and on horseback at the head of his troops he entered the village...
Mussolini created him a Marshal of Italy, later made him Viceroy of Ethiopia. Summoning the populace to the viceregal palace in Addis Ababa, Graziani stood up to address them when a couple of hand grenades bounced in. Graziani fell, crying, "They've killed me." Every Italian who had a weapon began firing into the crowd. In a few minutes there were a thousand dead in the palace grounds. Promiscuous killing, arson and pillaging went on for days. Total dead: 1,600. Even Mussolini protested, but Graziani, whose wounds were superficial, replied: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil...
...practicing Communists); of a heart ailment; in Rome. Son of a Papal Swiss Guard, Cardinal Schuster entered a Benedictine monastery at eleven, in 1929 became (at 49) the youngest prelate in the College of Cardinals. An outspoken, early supporter of Mussolini's Fascism (he hailed the invasion of Ethiopia as a "triumph of the cross of Christ"), he was pro-Ally in World War II, in 1945 acted as intermediary in unsuccessful surrender negotiations between Mussolini and the partisans. After the war, he became a leading figure in Italy's battle against Communism and anticlericalism...
...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito, who has learned that one of the penalties of being a dissident Communist is the entertainment of all sorts of inquisitive capitalists, was in the midst of an even fancier social calendar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, first crowned head ever voluntarily to visit a Communist country, dropped in and celebrated his 62nd birthday in Belgrade. Later this summer, to repay Tito's visit of last June, Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika will try out Tito's growing talents as a host...
...transformed fashion and etiquette. Born an authentic Vanderbilt (but not a Social Register one), Amy, 45, has three children and has married and divorced three husbands. She has been a book reviewer, an account executive and president of a public relations firm that represented clients as diverse as Ethiopia and the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers...