Word: balbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy is really going to fight Great Britain for supremacy in Africa, she must launch an overland campaign to take Alexandria. Main base for this attack must be Libya, where, since Air Marshal Italo Balbo's death,* fire-eating Marshal Rodolfo Graziani has been getting ready. (Onset of the rainy season in Ethiopia had slowed up preparations for a supplementary attack northward up the Nile tributaries from the Sudan border...
Britain's harassing, guerrilla tactics along the Libyan border with light tanks and armored trucks stung the Italians, just after Balbo's death, into attempting a Blitzkrieg drive with a mechanized column of more than 1,000 men on the fortified British coastal base of Sollum, 75 miles east of Tobruch. The British broke up this effort with a flanking attack, and the survivors took refuge in the deserted adobe Fort Capuzzo. There they still were after a thirsty week, sucking stones to eke out their water supply, which the British cut off by removing many sections...
...Aired over all BBC stations were brief news bulletins addressed to children from 10 to 15. Interspersed with mild little jokes and jingles (Making jam, preserving fruits, takes your mind off parachutes), the BBC bulletins were full of hearty father's-knee reassurance. Discussing the death of Italo Balbo, a BBC announcer chattily inquired of his juvenile audience: "What happened to him? Was it an accident? Well, Mussolini and Balbo didn't agree about Italy's friendship with Germany; that's why Balbo was sent away to Libya. So if it was an accident...
Over a fort in Italian Libya a British plane circled, dropped, not a bomb, but a note to the commanding officer, from Sir Arthur Longmore, Commander of the R. A. F. in the Middle East. The note expressed regret at the death of his onetime friend, Air Marshal Italo Balbo (TIME, July...
...succeed Balbo as Governor and Commander in Libya, Mussolini sent fierce Marshal Rodolfo Graziani...