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...South. Fighting was fiercer, Italian progress more impressive. Troops under command of General Rudolfo Graziani were stretched not 60 but 400 mi. on a "provincewide front" from the Webbe Shibeli almost to the borders of British Somaliland. Fierce nests of Ethiopian sharpshooters and unseasonable rains that bogged tanks and trucks hub-deep had held up the southern advance for days, but now Italian troops, moving again in three columns, had crossed over half the Ogaden Desert, were drawing closer & closer to Harar, chief stronghold of Ras Nassibu, commander of the Ethiopian armies of the south in Ogaden. Scouting planes zooming...
...Grim evidence of the determination of Ogaden authorities to risk everything on a climactic mass engagement was visible in the tortured labor of corps of ebony peasants-old men. women, boys and girls -sweating in a blistering sun to perfect the [Ethiopian] Army's last line of defense...
...Italo-Ethiopian war is a very small matter compared with the dangers I have just described. ... It was the fear of a rearmed Germany that led France to settle her differences with Italy at the beginning of the year. It is very likely that what is called a free hand in Ethiopia was thrown in . It is upon the basis of German rearmament and French apprehension that the Italo-Ethiopian war and the dispute between Italy and the League can alone be properly considered...
Last week, as Captain Marinetti embarked for Ethiopia with his two World War medals aglitter on his chest, his futurist brain was busy in the service of Fascism with "ideas for army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert...
...upheld years hence by some august tribunal of international lawyers is Italy's claim that the Pact, as interpreted by onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg permits almost any act of "self defense" and that Italy did not formally open her campaign against Ethiopia until after the Ethiopian mobilization order...