Word: rodolfo
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...many 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...
...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...
...week's end Marshal Rodolfo Graziani reviewed the joint Nazi-Fascist force. A German officer shouted: "At the beginning of Italian-German cooperation on African soil, we swear to make the greatest effort for a joint victory for Great Germany and Great Italy. Long live Great Italy! Long live Great Germany...
...sunk and three damaged elsewhere. This week the British admitted that one ship had been bombed, but said that a "large number" of Italian prisoners aboard her had been killed. Despite this new element, the British were confident that if they could reach Bengasi soon enough, they could make Rodolfo Graziani's last stand a one-man stand...