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...four days he and his 2,000 men-stiff-fezzed Askaris and undrilled Danakil tribesmen, backed by a battery of moun- tain artillery mounted on camels-had made the most spectacular forced march of the entire Ethiopian campaign. To protect the flank of Italy's main army of the north with its spearhead at Makale, they had gone where no white men had ever gone before, skirting the blazing Danakil Desert, then up over the bitter cold highlands facing the Derdega Mountains. One thing General Mariotti knew: Degiac Kassa Sebat was ahead of him with an indefinite number...
...distinguished audience that the Cardinal had before him. Representing Germany was plump Hermann Wilhelm Göring and a group of Nazi generals. Marshal Pétain and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France were there. Because U. S. Ambassador Cudahy was on vacation, busy, bald William C. Bullitt flew from Moscow to represent the U. S. The Earl of Cavan, a field marshal in the British Army, represented George...
...Minister General Denain proceeded with drastic plans to revamp the entire fighting service in his charge. By decree of President Lebrun, ex-War Minister Marshal Pétain was reinstated, this time permanently, as a member of the Supreme Council of National Defense. "We shall develop our alliances and our friendships," proclaimed Premier Flandin. "We shall strengthen our national defense...
Marshal Pétain, testy old War Minister and close to the "Cross of Fire," had made a scene at the next to last meeting of the Cabinet. When the six Radical Socialist Ministers, headed by M. Edouard Herriot, announced that they would resign, rather than support a three-month emergency credit to give Premier Doumergue time to put through his proposed reform of the Constitution (TIME, Nov. 12), lean, grizzled Marshal Pétain marched up to paunchy, pipe-sucking M. Herriot and hissed "Monsieur, you have committed a crime against France...
...Premier tried hardest to get Marshal Pétain, but the Marshal refused to stay on as War Minister. "I am old, I am tired, and I am no parliamentarian," said Pétain. But he approved Premier Flandin's second choice of brilliant General Louis Felix Thomas Maurin as War Minister...