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...Italians began this spectacular phase with their conquest of Ethiopia in 1935-36, continued it with their abortive drive from Libya into Egypt in 1940, surrendered the center of the North African stage to the Germans when Rommel arrived with his Afrika Korps in the spring of 1941. Other high points in the record...
...military conquest of Italy may be no easy task. After the Duce finished his week's activities, political warfare against Italy looked just as difficult, and it was hard to find an alternative to Mussolini for peace or postwar negotiations...
...long view, the odds were mounting against Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz and his submarine force. The complete conquest of the Mediterranean-yet to be achieved-will afford a shortened route to Suez and the Persian gate to Russia, deprive the Germans of rich hunting in the South Atlantic. Possibly with an eye to further excuses, the Germans last week let out a report from Berlin that Russia is counting on a submarine-free supply route from the west coast of North America through the protected waters of the Arctic Sea. If this route is used instead of that to Murmansk...
Italian Blessings. Brutal in conquest, the Italians were energetic imperialists. Their engineers, with sweating soldier-workmen and native labor, blasted, graded, bridged and finally smoothed 4,340 miles of asphalt and macadam highway over Ethiopia's desert areas, muddy lowlands, rolling valleys, deep ravines and high, broad plateaus. Some 10,000 miles of lesser roads were opened...
That was the time-May 5, 1936-when Italian legions completed their conquest of Ethiopia. Then Mussolini had bidden his proud followers to "lift up their standards, their weapons and their hearts and greet the new empire which after 15 centuries again reappears upon the fateful hills of Rome...