Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini was concerned last week, his colonies of Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and newly-conquered Ethiopia ceased to exist separately. With swift strokes he divided his East African domain into five autonomous provinces under the supervision of Viceroy Pietro Badoglio in the new capital, Addis Ababa. The new provinces and their capitals: Eritrea (Asmara); Amhara (Gondar); Harar (Harar), Somaliland (Mogadiscio); Galla & Sidamo (Gimma). Il Duce also promised religious freedom to Moslems of his domain, returned the Ethiopian Coptic Christian Church to its old Egyptian affiliation...
...mustard perhaps-out of pity For the traces of poisonous gas? Or did he ride into the city On a mule-or an ass? Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital on a small dapple-grey. Last week, 15 days after his triumphant entry, Italy's new Viceroy of Ethiopia rode out again in an airplane piloted by his son, who has acted as an aerial chauffeur for his father ever since the beginning of the campaign. Officially the Marshal was returning to Italy, to rest briefly and take his annual cure at the radioactive springs of Fiuggi. Actually...
Before leaving Africa, Marshal Badoglio had time to sit down in Addis Ababa, send off to Il Duce a long report containing an outline of a new system of justice for Ethiopia. The Viceroy suggested courts based on the extraterritorial courts of China, one for black Coptic Christians, another for white colonists and foreigners, a third for Moslems and a fourth for disputes between whites and natives...
...Grand Council. Besides the complete annexation of Ethiopia and the proclamation of the King as Emperor, it provided that Ethiopia was to be ruled by a Governor General with the title of Vice roy who will also have authority over the Governors of Eritrea and Somaliland. First Viceroy of Ethiopia: Marshal of Italy, Cavaliere Pietro Badoglio, Marquis of Sabotino...
Last week, day before the Senate elections, King Farouk sailed into Alexandria harbor on the British liner Viceroy of India. In Cairo the young King knelt before the tomb of his father in the Mosque of Er-Rifái, met Queen Mother Nazli and his four sisters at Abdin Palace. His work was ended when he recognized as his heir his first cousin, 61-year-old Prince Mohammed Ali, son of his father's eldest brother and his father's nominee for president of the Council of Regents to replace a nominee who had died...