Word: balbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascist Party. By removing him from his post (nothing was said about what had become of him) Benito Mussolini got rid of one more power which might threaten the power of the Duce. Before Starace, many an old-time Fascist had been relegated to oblivion or death: Hero Italo Balbo to the Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death in his airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate in Albania. Each of these men possessed great influence over some segment of the Italian people, from royalty to hoi polloi...
...Africa," said the late Marshal Italo Balbo when he was Governor of Libya, "is the continent on which the great nations of the world must prove their right to priority." It has indeed turned out to be Italy's proving table. Isolated from the rest of World War II, British successes on land (see p. 36) and sea (see p. 30) in the Mediterranean area had been brilliant. But the British had not relinquished their conviction that this time the great nations would have to hand in their final proofs not in Africa but on or near a little...
...others: the late Italo Balbo and Michele Bianchi, and white-bearded Marshal Emilio De Bono...
Italy's forces in Libya under fierce Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, who succeeded Italo Balbo when the latter was killed, could be reinforced from Italy's total reserves at home as long as Italian transports could safely cross the Mediterranean. Water is the direst military factor in Libya. In East Africa, reinforceable only by air (because Suez would be plugged before being surrendered), Italy had one white division (Savoy Grenadiers) of 21,391 men, seven native militia legions (50,000), 70,000 white farmers and workers trained as a militia reserve. Her airplanes there, which could be added...
...Correspondent Edmond Taylor of CBS, upon his return from Italy last week, said that Balbo was shot down while flying a party of friends on a sightseeing trip over Tobruch, just as Italy announced officially. But Italy's suppression of the bad news for two days or so gave the British a chance to say, truthfully, that no R. A. F. planes operated over Tobruch that later day, thus casting sinister mystery over Balbo's death...