Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some of his major coups are a trifle too Parisian. Last week a few prominent journalists working in France were permitted to read what was supposed to be the entire report of the French Secret Service on what happened in Addis Ababa following the bomb attack on Italian Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, March 1). This may or may not have been the real "lowdown," but it made interesting reading and is typical of French finesse in acquiring the goodwill of top-grade foreign correspondents by giving them a peep to ease their heroic curiosity...
Summarized, the French lowdown on Addis Ababa last week was that a slanting tin roof made a great deal of difference. Had not Viceroy Graziani & Staff been standing under its eaves, the five bombs, all inexpertly "thrown high" by Ethiopians, would not have glanced and rolled off to a short distance. They gave the Viceroy 38 body wounds but they killed numbers of Ethiopians and would infallibly have killed Graziani & Staff had the tin roof not been there. The Chief of Italy's East African Air Force General Aurelio Liotta not only had to have a leg amputated...
...proceeded after the bombing to retaliate by shooting up the town, its disarmed, comparatively helpless citizens, accustomed always to giving as good as they got, became bitterly incensed at the white men's behaving in a manner so "unfair"- even if the Fascists were striking back because their Viceroy had 38 slugs...
Ethiopia's Minister to Great Britain charged that among natives executed at Addis Ababa after the bomb attempt on the Italian Viceroy (TIME, March 1) were two of his sons and a son of another Ethiopian Minister: ''These three were among the fine flowers of Ethiopia's enlightened intellectuals...
...remnants of a native army. Few-hours later an Italian-led column of Ethiopian troops swooped down and routed the Ethiopian stragglers of Ras Desta Demtu. According to the Italian official version, Haile Selassie's designated Coronation envoy was implicated in the attempt to assassinate Italy's Viceroy in Addis Ababa by means of hand grenades (TIME, March 1). In short order Ras Desta Demtu was executed, and convalescent Viceroy Graziani radioed to Rome: "DUCE YOUR ORDERS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT AS ALWAYS...