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Breathless, popeyed, footsore runners from the Northern Front brought Emperor Haile Selassie news that 4,700 Italians have been killed by Ethiopians in savage skirmishes bordering the area nominally conquered by Il Duce's forces. Runners from the Southern Front told of the capture from Italians of 1,000 precious rifles and 20 priceless machine guns, of Italian tanks stranded and abandoned, Italian native troops mutinying...
Pouncing on the lira accounts in Italy of London banks, including funds of many maiden ladies and widows who find Britain's climate too bleak, II Duce blocked all payments out of these accounts. Simultaneously gold was declared a State monopoly but Italians were not ordered to turn it in. If they would deposit it with one of the State banks they were offered 5% interest on the value of the metal and its "return within one year in gold of the same weight and fineness...
...council of Italy to erect a slab to record the Economic Siege, so that it will remain throughout the centuries as a documentation of the enormous injustice perpetrated against Italy, which has contributed so much to the civilization of all continents. . . . The Grand Council acclaims its enthusiasm in Il Duce, who realizes the supreme right of the nation to win security in Africa...
...village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed Italian advance all the way from Aduwa, 60 miles to the north last week, moved into his palace. By order of white bearded General Emilio de Bono he had been appointed the puppet...
...apathy of John Bull seemed to do him credit. In so far as British Labor is articulate, the proletariat voted to go to war with Italy when the strongly anti-Fascist Trades Union Congress demanded that full military and naval sanctions be applied if necessary to whip Il Duce (TIME, Sept. 23). Yet last week Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee was imploring voters to "Stop War! Vote Labor!" In other words he thought that the mass of British voters could be duped by catch phrases and have no true, proletarian backbone. They have not and John Bull, in John...