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.

Since Benito Mussolini, too, is a Great Editor, the Italian people read in their papers last week nothing about Abyssinia except references to the “arrogance and provocation” with which Power ...

“But this is untrue: Mussolini was the world’s first Fascist dictator, heading an unpleasant regime which used poison gas in Abyssinia and sent oppositionists into repressive ‘confinement’. “But the ...

Mussolini argued that “giving this interview to your paper, which has been so unfair and so hostile to our cause” showed that he bore no malice. In a leading article on the page opposite the interview ...

W hen you think of old civilisations, Ancient Egypt may spring to mind, complete with mummies, pyramids and part animal and ...

as they were distracted by a crisis between Italy and Abyssinia 1 1938 In March, Hitler united Germany and Austria in an event known as the Anschluss This time the Italian leader Mussolini ...

The Hoare-Laval fiasco (where France and Britain tried to appease Italy's leader Mussolini by agreeing to offer him land in Abyssinia) had been deeply unpopular and had eventually brought down the ...