Badoglio, Pietro 1871-1956. Italian soldier
and Fascist politician. A veteran of
campaigns against the peoples of Tripoli and
Cyrenaica, in 1935 he became commander in
chief in Ethiopia, adopting ruthless measures
to break patriot resistance. He was created
viceroy of Ethiopia and duke of Addis Ababa
in 1936. He resigned during the disastrous
campaign into Greece 1940 and succeeded
Mussolini as prime minister of Italy from
July 1943 to June 1944, negotiating the
armistice with the Allies.