Word: ethiopia
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Killed in Action. Commando Captain Lord Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 31, 6th Duke of Wellington, fifth-generation descendant of Waterloo's victor; in a raid on northeastern Sicily. Army career man, veteran of Ethiopia, he inherited from his father titles that sounded the Napoleonic battle roll, some $1,000,000 in landed estates, the ancestral right of keeping his hat on in the King of Spain's presence...
...them. Those nations were Great Britain and France. European politicians came to believe that the League was no more than an alternate tool of the Franco-British balance of power-a belief that was ignobly confirmed when the Hoare-Laval pact, giving Mussolini a free fist in Ethiopia, put an effective end to the League's lone effort to apply not even military but economic force against an aggressor...
Back when the war was only a threat and appeasement was a strange new word, the name of Sir Samuel Hoare was a Symbol of abasement before fascism. As Britain's Foreign Secretary in 1935, he joined Laval in a deal to throw Ethiopia to Mussolini. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1937, he helped throttle Republican Spain, thus paving the way for Franco. He applauded Munich loudly. Just before the fall of France he presented his credentials to Francisco Franco, became His Majesty's Ambassador to Spain. In Madrid he gave embryonic Falange salutes and watched...
...Mussolini, who did not hesitate to use poisonous gas through Badoglio against defenseless people . . . should certainly not be permitted to end his days in safe retirement. . . . Ethiopia is less interested in vengeance for the past than in justice for the future. . . . Much more important . . . [is] the building and maintaining of international institutions that will prevent the rise of political bullies trampling on the rights of small nations...
...Benito Mussolini it had been a Latin pageant: the refurbishing of old Roman monuments and the building of new ones; marshland drained and colonies settled; a corporative state and the Balilla; adventure in Corfu, Ethiopia, Spain, Albania, Greece and Egypt; the dream of Mare Nostrum and the grandest of Mediterranean empires...