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British Historian Anthony Mockler calls his book Haile Selassie's War because it thrusts the wily, ambitious little (5 ft. 4 in.) Emperor onto center stage as the noble foe of Fascism. In fact, the war began almost 40 years earlier, when an imperial army of 16,000 Italians engaged the forces of the Ethiopian Emperor Men-elik II at the Battle of Adowa and suffered a humiliating defeat...
...memory of Adowa poisoned relations between the two countries. Finally, a bloody border incident in 1934 on the frontier between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland provided the incendiary device. Ethiopia protested to the League of Nations, an act, suggests Mockler, that goaded the vainglorious Duce into war. On Oct. 3, 1935, 100,000 Italian troops began their invasion...
When students returned from intersession in 1991, they learned that the search committee had been dealt an unexpected blow: search committee member and businessman Mockler, the CEO of Gillette Company, had suddenly died...
...Corporation also chose a new member, Richard A. Smith, age 67, to replace the late Gilette CEO Colman M. Mockler '52. Two other Corporation members, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 and Charles P. Slichter '45, are approaching 70, the age at which members traditionally step down...
...world of business, he's done very well," Hiatt says, comparing Smith's expertise in that area to Mockler's, and mentioning Smith's skill in strategically diversifying General Cinema Corporation...