Word: ethiopia
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...year-old child of iron named Ettore Muti. Signor Muti marched with Poet-Hero Gabriele D'Annunzio when he seized Fiume in 1919, by 1922 had let enough blood in the province of Ravenna so that it was ready to be healed by Fascism; dropped bombs on Ethiopia and Spain-until, today, his is known as the most decorated chest in medal-rich Italy. He is handsome, slim-waisted, athletic, merciless. If Starace was a panther, he is a tiger...
...military plum fell to one of the grimmest, crudest men in Italy, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. His family motto is: "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes." He ruthlessly subdued Libya in 1921-29, led the murderous southern campaign in Ethiopia. Nicked by a would-be assassin's hand grenade in Addis Ababa in 1937, he had 1,600 natives slaughtered. When Mussolini chided him, he is said to have answered: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy because of "ill health...
...merely introduced aviation to warfare. Ethiopia and China were little more than proving grounds. So far as is known, the biggest concentrated air bombardment to date occurred when new-type bombs whistled down on Barcelona New Year's Eve, 1938. At various times dozens of Fascist bombers operated in formation over Spain and, according to German accounts, as many as 800 attacked Polish fortifications in concert last month. But to airmen the world over this still remains white-chip stuff...
...droned above the city. Or it could have been written by Floyd Gibbons in Shanghai the day the Palace Hotel had its front blown off, in 1937. Actually neither- Hemingway nor Gibbons wrote it, nor any of the war correspondents whose names were sometimes bigger than the news in Ethiopia, Spain and China, but a 28-year-old reporter named Daniel De Luce, who went to Europe for the first time last April...
...time being from the wrath of Great Britain & France, B. Mussolini was in just about the world's hottest spot. One martial move by him, he well knew, and Italy would suffer the full fury of the French Army and two navies. She would probably lose Ethiopia, have to fight hard to hold Libya and not starve. And the Turks would make life unbearable by driving behind the Greeks at Albania...