Word: graziani
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...radioactive springs of Fiuggi. Actually things were growing too tense in Europe for Benito Mussolini to have his best soldier 2,000 miles away. At 10 o'clock on the morning of his departure Marshal Badoglio welcomed to Addis Ababa his old friend and colleague Marshal Rudolfo Graziani, handed over to him the authority to rule Ethiopia as "Regent." Fascist wiseacres wagered last week that Marshal Badoglio will not return to Ethiopia for months, that Marshal Graziani will soon succeed him as Viceroy...
Fall of Harar. All the excitement was not limited to Addis Ababa last week, Doggedly Italy's southern army under General Graziani plowed ahead toward Harar, Jijiga and Diredawa, key cities of the southeast. Only nature opposed them. At Harar, second city of the defunct empire, news that its defender, Ras Nassibu, had also fled the country caused another outbreak of rioting and looting almost as severe as that which shook Addis Ababa. Soon the Italians marched in, put down disorder with a heavy hand...
...bearded chiefs at first said nothing at all. Finally they explained. There was only one effective army left in Ethiopia, that of Ras Nassibu, now fighting for its life against General Graziani's relentless advance on Harar. Tribes to the west were in as ugly a mood as those around Magdala. One after another the chiefs rose to tell how hopeless the situation was. There was nothing for the King of Kings to do but run for his life...
...raging last week around a collection of water holes and mud huts known as Sassa Baneh. There lean, wily Ras Nassibu had stationed legions of his best men, entrenched in an elaborate series of fortifications dug under direction of the onetime Turkish General Wehib Pasha. Four columns under General Graziani were attempting to surround the town, batter it to submission. Charging again & again through thorn bushes and over huge boulders, men from Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco fell never to rise again, for leading the central column under a General Frusci was a regiment composed largely of Italian-American volunteers...
...four days the Ethiopians held out against tanks, bombs, planes, heavy field guns. Then they broke and ran. But General Graziani was still some 225 miles from Harar. He admitted the loss of two planes, ten officers, some hundred casualties...