Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patience was the mainspring of Benito Mussolini's policy last week as his troops wormed forward through difficult terrain. First Japan, then Germany quit the League of Nations on a fraction of the provocation Geneva offered to Rome last week, but Il Duce kept playing the Geneva game. He scarcely expected, however, to take any tricks before the British general election is over...
...accident was it that Italy's third claw was put in charge of her ablest colonial general. General Rodolfo Grazi-ani, hard bitten veteran of many a Libyan skirmish, was plowing north last week from Italian Somaliland at the head of mixed Italian and colonial troops. The terrain he will have to cross is a shade easier than that facing the other two armies, but the distance to his base, Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean, is almost twice as long, the difficulties of water, food and supplies almost twice as great. It is against him that Ethiopians have their...
...This convoy," said General Wahib, "is an example of the tactics of the guerrillas in bush terrain where the effectiveness of poison gas and airplanes is minimized. We concede the menace of enemy starshells but the Ethiopians are masters of bayonet and sabre tactics. They are born artists with those weapons...
...North American such a wild terrain does not seem economically worth fighting for. Perhaps it has oil. Perhaps Bolivia, cut off from the Pacific by Chile 52 years ago, needs an outlet across the northern Chaco to the navigable Paraguay River. However, landlocked Bolivia already has far better outlets: by railroad across Chile to the coast; by railroad to the navigable reaches of the Amazon in Brazil. The Gran Chaco War was wholly a peoples' war, begun by a rousing pair of national inferiority complexes...
Rather than risk a crash landing in rough terrain, he decided to return to Washington, radioed Boiling Field to have a crash, crew and ambulance ready. Covering the 85 mi. without difficulty on two motors, he circled the field, glided in with one wing high, made a one-wheel landing which resulted in nothing more serious than a groundloop. Army flyers called the landing "a thing of beauty." Few minutes later Pilot Carmichael took off in another plane with three of his passengers, set them down safely in Detroit next morning...