Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first adunata (general assembly) of the Italian people occurred Oct. 2, 1935, marked the beginning of the War in Ethiopia. At the second adunata, held early last week, the occupation of Addis Ababa by Marshal Badoglio was announced. Four days later came the call for the third adunata which all Italy had been feverishly awaiting. Well drilled, the Italian people knew their posts, their cues. A good hour before Il Duce's speech, they had left their homes, cafes and shops to gather in public squares. In the shoeshine parlors and groceries of Brooklyn and Boston...
...exactly 10 o'clock members of the Grand Council of Fascism, followed by the Italian Cabinet, all in Fascist trimmings & trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...
...Council. Besides the complete annexation of Ethiopia and the proclamation of the King as Emperor, it provided that Ethiopia was to be ruled by a Governor General with the title of Vice roy who will also have authority over the Governors of Eritrea and Somaliland. First Viceroy of Ethiopia: Marshal of Italy, Cavaliere Pietro Badoglio, Marquis of Sabotino...
...Addis Ababa last week the German Minister to Ethiopia, Dr. Johann Hans Kirchholtes, put on a clean collar and drove down the road to the onetime Italian legation, now headquarters of Marshal Badoglio. His call on the Italian General was the first recognition of any foreign government that the conquest of Ethiopia is now an accomplished fact. Meanwhile one of Marshal Badoglio's most dapper staff officers. Captain Adolfo Alessandri, dug his Sunday inspection breeches and best white gloves from the bottom of his campaign trunk, visited in turn every foreign legation in Addis Ababa. Clicking his heels...
...holding out our hand to Moscow," quavered the 77-year-old marshal, "we have held it out to Communism. . . . We are bringing Communism into the circle of admissible doctrines. We probably shall have reason to regret it. I am anxious, anxious for the safety of France and for Frenchmen's liberties...