Content note: Italian 1936 magazine cover presenting the conquest of Ethiopia as welcomed, with caricature-style depiction of Ethiopian people, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
La Domenica del Corriere, 27 December 1936, cover: 'Tutti i territori dell'Impero sono occupati' (Rome)
Colour weekly cover. An Italian soldier in a tropical helmet holds a tall tricolour with the Savoy arms aloft while a crowd of Ethiopian men in white and coloured robes raise their arms around him; shields, spears and rifles lie discarded on the ground in the foreground. The printed caption says all territories of the Empire are occupied and that the submitted populations salute the Tricolour. The tell: the conquered are shown disarming themselves and cheering, so military occupation is presented as spontaneous welcome.
Propaganda techniques used in this newspaper page
- Date
- December 27, 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- La Domenica del Corriere (weekly illustrated supplement of the Corriere della Sera, Milan); cover drawing by Achille Beltrame; published in Fascist Italy
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Fascist Italy
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Fascist Italy
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Empire and colonialism, War and the military
- Event
- Second Italo Ethiopian War
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD tag; Italian basis, URAA status not asserted)
Achille Beltrame, La Domenica del Corriere, 27 December 1936; via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked
LA DOMENICA DEL CORRIERE Si pubblica a Milano ogni settimana Supplemento illustrato del "Corriere della Sera" Anno XXXVIII - N. 52 27 Dicembre 1936 - Anno XV Centesimi 30 la copia Tutti i territori dell'Impero sono occupati. Le popolazioni, sottomesse, salutano il Tricolore. (Allegoria di A. Beltrame)
ALL THE TERRITORIES OF THE EMPIRE ARE OCCUPIED. THE POPULATIONS, SUBMITTED, SALUTE THE TRICOLOUR. (Allegory by A. Beltrame)
Masthead subscription and office boxes omitted; only the title, issue line and the caption under the picture are transcribed.
