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...rests secondarily on her efforts to enlarge the borders of her most recently acquired and indigestible piece of African pie: Ethiopia. Viceroy there and Governor General of Italian East Africa is the ablest member of the Royal Family, Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, first cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele. Into his 42 years this dynamic Duke has packed a great deal of colonial service and fighting in Tripoli, the Sahara, Ethiopia, incognito in the Belgian Congo. Lean and tall, he is a veteran of artillery, camel cavalry, a general of the Italian Air Fleet. Against the strong...
Little old King Vittorio Emanuele III was pressed into service. This pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) King, who really prefers peace- and for whom the Italian people preserve filial affection, was strutted off in all his regimentals to some secret "zone of operations" where he proclaimed: "Soldiers of the land...
Badoglio. Of these Army heads, far the ablest and most experienced is Pietro Giuseppe Vittorio Luigi Badoglio, 68, Senator, Marquis of Sabotino, Duke of Addis Ababa. He has fought in all Italian wars since Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia whipped the Italians in Eritrea in 1896 and he, a lieutenant of artillery, helped save the town of Adigrat. He was credited with planning the victory of Zanzur in 1911, which wrested Libya from Turkey. His capture of Mt. Sabotino from the Austrians in 1916 led to the victory at Gorizia and won Colonel Badoglio his generalship. His Second Army...
...quench the thirst of fighting men and machines in her desert countries and rocky islands, Italy's Navy has a unique class of water tankers. Italy's two new battleships of 35.000 tons, the Littorio and Vittorio Veneto (with two more coming up) are, until Britain's King George V class takes the sea. the world's most powerful. Italy's Navy is thus well equipped in most departments, needs only to be tested now in battle...
...Vittorio Emanuele III it was who signed that quaint, antique instrument, the Declaration of War, and for his pains was patted on the head by Messrs. Mussolini and Hitler. "I feel the urge," telegraphed .the Fiihrer from German G. H. Q., "to express my most heartfelt greetings to Your Majesty." Signs aplenty had told the Italian soldiers that the hour was at hand. The hour had in fact been at hand so long that some Italians believed the chimes of destiny's clock were out of order. But last week the blowing hot and cold suddenly became...