planes, and cannons marched into Ethiopia. Within 12 days Italy had managed to push to Axum and by early November had managed to seize nearly all of Northern Ethiopia. By March/May of 1936, Italy was in nearly complete control over Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was forced...
They are a shorthand that people in general understand. Plus, in the age of smartphones, it really doesn’t do native English speakers any harm to have to look up the meanings of foreign words occasionally (I do this a lot). The other side of the coin (a phrase I’m used to ...