Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scares of World War II have been followed by major campaigns. Last February and March Scandinavia had an attack of terror; in April Norway was invaded. Last January and April the Lowlands had their panics; in May they were overrun. In April and May there was apprehension about Benito Mussolini's entering the war; in June...
...British staged their attack on Eritrea largely with Indian troops - also mostly Moslems. These troops not only fought fiercely against the Italians; they were well received by the natives. It also looked well to the whole Middle Eastern Moslem world, which is already largely pledged to Britain although Signer Mussolini declared himself Defender of Islam in 1937. In the East the British had once more reversed their old maxim, Divide and Rule, to read: Unite and Revolt...
...Italy's dozen Cabinet Ministers, including gaudy Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, had donned officers' uniforms and joined the nation's desperate fighting forces. But the catch in this bit of cheer was that Old War Horse Benito ("war is the normal state of the people") Mussolini now had nobody to restrain...
Italy's war in Ethiopia and her Spanish blunders provided him invaluable information, and the construction of Italian highways through Albania to the Greek frontier revealed Mussolini's plan of conquest...
...estimated half of Mussolini's East African army--about 100,000 troops --were said to face entrapment in Eritrea, while other Italian forces were reported in retreat from Western Ethiopia and from Ethiopia's southern frontier...