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>the reasons behind which are still not completely clear
my guess:
- attempt to curb the racemixing in the colonies (too many colonists were taking local women in Etiopia);
- attempt to please or impress Hitler for whatever reason;
- mental illness; see
>>215864317. bocchini and ciano grew increasingly frustrated of mussolini in the days leading up to the war. if you read ciano's journal he's described as erratic and "impossible to work with" due to his sickness. they should have removed him sometime around 1935 and the regime would have survived