"In a recent dispatch from its correspondent in Jibuti, French Somaliland, the London Times declares that 'the Ethiopians have persisted and still persist in passive resistance. Valuable coffee plantations and tracts of agricultural land that they will not cultivate have been allowed to go fallow for two years.'".
Mussolini explained why he invaded Ethiopia in this article...
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