WAR: Hour of Need

Anxiously, hour after hour, Benito Mussolini waited for word from Ethiopia last week. He needed a good thumping victory as never before. The smashing of the Imperial Guard in the Lake Ashangi region fortnight ago was glory enough to keep Italians contented for another month, but something more was needed to halt Anthony Eden's drive toward sterner League sanctions at Geneva.

Quoram, just occupied by Marshal Badoglio, is only 100 miles from Dessye, for months the headquarters of Haile Selassie. The Imperial Highway is supposed to connect the two towns. Could Italian troops make the distance in a week? Three...

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