Word: italo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...isolation is no longer sufficient to keep us out of European politics and wars. If isolation is to be no longer enough protection, then we must have some protection. Like most militarists I don't want war. I think the action of the U. S. in keeping out the Italo-Ethiopian fracas is to be highly commended. However, I do believe that we must have an army ready on hand in case of attack or invasion. Hugh Bertsch...
...have retained any vestige of common sense," rasped Chancellor Chamberlain, "we must admit that we have tried to impose on the League a task beyond its powers. The circumstances in which the Italo-Ethiopian dispute began offered a most favorable opportunity to exercise the League of Nation's policy of 'collective security,' but that policy, based on Sanctions, has been tried out and has failed...
...tiny, forgotten participant in the Italo-Ethiopian War was the British freighter Santa Maria whose job it was to carry from Finland to French Somaliland two tons of TNT, 200 incendiary bombs, three airplanes and four machine guns for Emperor Haile Selassie's armies. The Santa Maria had got as far as Gibraltar when Haile Selassie fled his empire and the war was over. Captain P. P. Allen was told by the cargo's Finnish shippers, who had presumably already been paid for it, to land it somewhere and await further orders. He landed it at Tangier...
Last winter world headlines told of Italian hospital ships unloading thousands of Italian sick in secret sick dumps on the island of Rhodes, of countless Italian crosses on the plains of Eritrea. Sir Aldo smiled. Last week, arriving in Addis Ababa, he made his health report on the Italo-Ethiopian...
...exactly 10 o'clock members of the Grand Council of Fascism, followed by the Italian Cabinet, all in Fascist trimmings & trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...