Word: ethiopia
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...Orient. This time that route is cut farther west, by Italy in midMediterranean, and the British Fleet protecting the Canal found another function: to threaten Italy in the Mediterranean, raid her supply lines and cut off completely the Italian forces in East Africa (which now includes what once was Ethiopia...
...Italian squadron in East Africa was only strong for commerce raiding, not to meet any major British squadron in battle. But the British had to break the Italian grip in order to feel comfortable, and this would involve a campaign against the Italian ports in that area and against Ethiopia...
...Ethiopia is no Arab-country, and far from wanting to raise a revolt among the Arabs who came mostly into Britain's sphere of influence after World War I, Britain wanted nothing so much as to keep them quiet. But various dialects of Arabic are the language of Egypt, the Sudan and Libya, as well as of the Asiatic shore. Furthermore, the Arabs are expert desert soldiers and might prove useful allies to the British in Libya and the Sudan, where roads are almost as scarce as railroads, and the chief highways are furrows in the sand worn...
...Kenya front, last fortnight's mechanized Italian drive on Moyale pinched off the northeast prong of Kenya Colony which projects into Ethiopia...
...Little brown Haile Selassie, whom Britain again recognizes as Ethiopia's rightful Emperor, passed by plane through Khartoum on his way to join his warriors somewhere on his former country's border. Said he: "Italy has set the seal of her own doom and has provided my people with the moment to strike. . . . We shall fight with the utmost tenacity. . . . God's time is now at hand...