To relieve young Count Ciano’s ufficio stampa (Press Bureau) of any difficulty in explaining Italy’s future moves in Abyssinia, Dictator Mussolini as War Minister abruptly took over its functions.

HELLHOLE OF CREATION—L. M. Nesbitt—Knopf ($3.75). If Mussolini's cheering troops had to footslog their way into Abyssinia from the blanketing coast of Eritrea, their cheers would not ...

The Abyssinian affair ended shamefully, after Hoare and Pierre Laval, with the broad assent of our Cabinet, cooked up a plan in December 1935 to reach a compromise with Mussolini whereby he ...

If Mussolini were in fact preparing to fight Abyssinia, he would be wise to arrange for shutting off his enemy’s supply of munitions. On the whole, then, the concessions received by Italy in Africa ...

When Mussolini invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in October 1935, Italians were filled with jingoist triumphalism. Oilcloth maps went up in schools to show the dictator's rapid African conquests.

Benito Mussolini's devoted subjects made pilgrimages to his birthplace and sent him 1,500 letters a day. ... Admittedly, the Abyssinian adventure of 1935-36 had been popular, ...

In 1935, the Morning Post sent a young journalist to Abyssinia to cover the imminent war with Italy. There he met Evelyn Waugh, whose impressions of his fellow reporters and their escapades formed ...

Roger Donaldson has come aboard to develop “Abyssinia” with the intent of directing the epic love story framed by Mussolini’s World War II invasion of Ethiopia. Project’s set up at ...

In the midst of Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini’s 19-year-old son Vittorio, a pilot in the Regia Aeronautica, published an account of an air raid, writing, “I still ...

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, by David Kertzer. Random House. ... "so that they even declared the war in Abyssinia a holy war." ...