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Haile Selassie issued a call to action, and native bands began to harass the Italian rear. The Negus meant business. Said he: "When I enter Addis Ababa, I shall lead my victorious troops into the Capital, mounted on a white horse, just as Badoglio did. I will tear down the figure of the wolf erected by the Italians in Addis Ababa Square and in its place will reinstate the white marble statue of the Lion of Judah." In London, his roly-poly, good-natured Empress Waizeru Menen collected her daughters, packed her crown jewels for the big entry, climbed aboard...
...Hill. The crowd stamped less, cheered more, laughed more easily. It cheered the silk-hatted, beaver-collared President (who had borrowed Joe Davies' fur-lined overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were CCC boys in green uniforms, NYA girls in blue and white dresses, a Negro WPA company, whose straggling ranks and struggling salutes to the President gave watchers their only laugh...
Biggest concentration of German power was thought to be in a 2,000,000-man army of defense. Frontier forces were known to be along the borders of Russia, Italy and the Balkans. More were gathered in troop pools behind a scouting screen on Europe's west coast, lest Britain attempt a nuisance invasion of her own to upset Axis plans...
...years ago the State Department became alarmed by Nazi shenanigans in Colombia. Controlled and operated by avowed anti-U. S. Germans, powerful, 20-year-old Scadta airline had mapped and charted the Panama Canal, had placed an airfield but 150 miles away, could well use its heavy Junkers as troop transports, bombers. Last year Colombia responded gracefully (if belatedly) to U. S. pressure by nationalizing Scadta (now Avianca) and giving 64% control to Pan American.* But the Nazi shadow still fell on the canal...
...pagos Islands,† which, though sparsely inhabited and commercially impotent, are located strategically near the Panama Canal, 3) the jungles of eastern Ecuador, from which she could easily connect with Lufthansa-owned Condor's penetration line in western Brazil. Her Junkers JU52s (used as troop transports in Belgium, The Netherlands) could fly from Ecuador to the Canal Zone in four hours or less...