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...friends on the playing fields of Eton. As a 17-year-old soldier he was decorated for valor in World War I. Then he had worked hard as an agent in the expansion of the Empire, in the Congo and in Libya, where he sadly disapproved of General Rodolfo Graziani's ruthlessness. At home in Italy he was the most popular member of the royal family. In Ethiopia he wanted to simplify the Italianate bureaucracy along British colonial lines, and just before assuming his duties in 1937 he visited his old friends in England...
...fortnight a large-scale Axis mechanized raid had been under way in Libya. It had been signalized by the resignation of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, nearly the last of Italy's famed and tried old hands. His place was taken by General Italo Gariboldi, 62, one of Italy's old whisker-bearing generals. But the real Axis commander in Libya was now no Italian. It was Lieut. General Erwin Rommel, a Panzer expert whose appointment to Libya must have maddened the Italians: he distinguished himself against them in World War I. General Rommel apparently used one mechanized division (mostly...
...reported on its bankruptcy by telling how Roberto Farinacci's Fascist Party plotters undercut the Old Guard and ousted Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Correspondent Whitaker added: "The Fascists have deliberately spread lies about the corruption of Badoglio. He isn't corrupt. He is merely a very old man. . . . Graziani is a sick man, suffering, perhaps, from cancer of the throat...
...Italians also showed the League of Nations gruesome photographs to prove that castration was practiced by Haile Selassie's troops in the Ethiopian war five years ago. On the other hand, the Italians themselves were not simon-pure: the cruelties of the troops of Rodolfo Graziani, whose colonial career last week ended in military unmanning, are famous...
...British drives in East Africa had resolved themselves into one campaign-an encirclement of Addis Ababa. When he took Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini's strategy was to send his main attack (Marshals De Bono and Badoglio) southward from Eritrea, and to meet it with a smaller containing attack (General Graziani) northward from Italian Somaliland. This time the British strategy was to bottle as many troops as possible in Eritrea and then converge on Addis Ababa from the northwest and south. The main British attack came from the south...