1936 was a decisive year for Fascist foreign policy. As mentioned, on May 5, at 4 p.m., Marshal Badoglio led Italian troops into Addis Ababa. That same evening—at 7:45 p.m.—Mussolini delivered the fateful news from the balcony of Palazzo Venezia. Four days later, on Saturday, May 9, the Duce proclaimed to the exultant crowd that a new “Empire” had been born—a word he hadn’t spoken on the previous occasion. Triumph turned to apotheosis, thanks to a radio that had become more and more a tool of the dictatorship. And the task of reporting the event in English would fall, as we shall see, to none other than Lisa Sergio.