Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tripoli and Benghazi, where proconsuls of the Phoenicians, the Caesars and the Ottomans once reigned, and the shards of Mussolini's latter-day empire molder mockingly in the African sun, bright new flags proclaimed the birth of the United Kingdom of Libya. A sage old Moslem spiritual leader became the world's newest King, Idris I of Libya. Three territories, separated by wide deserts and mutual distrust-Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan -were united under a Western-style parliament and a constitution scissored and pasted together from the laws of twelve other countries...
...Miles of Track. Importing twice what it exports, the country must write its budget in red. The kingdom's rail transport consists of one steam engine, two diesels, a few ramshackle freight cars, and only 200 miles of track to run them on. Between Tripoli, which is the country's largest city, and Fezzan, its largest province, there are no telephone, telegraph or radio connections. Nor is there much homogeneity between the three provinces. Except for the late years of Italian rule (1935 until World War II), Tripolitania (pop. 800,000), Cyrenaica (pop. 300,000) and Fezzan...
...Christmas list of recent religious books: The Kingdom of God Is Within You, by Leo Tolstoy (Page; $3) with a foreword of appreciation by Actress Mary Martin. It all went back to her meeting with India's Prime Minister Nehru, who asked her how she managed to keep so fresh during the long run of South Pacific. By reading something different, she answered. Whereupon he recommended the autobiography of Gandhi, in which Gandhi discussed Tolstoy's book...
...This is by no means a statement of doctrinal exclusion; it is a statement of the fact of human solidarity, and it is the means by which all mankind may live in the household of the Lord. Sinners need saints and saints need sinners, and no one enters the kingdom without the loving concern of all. Jesus needed the synagogue and the synagogue needed Jesus, who came not to destroy but to cleanse...
...poor whatever they want. The wishes of the poor are funny, pathetic, always vulnerably human and sometimes as shabby as the greedy designs of the caricatured plutocrat in plug hat and fur collar. Ultimately, the dove enables them to escape into the clouds on streetcleaners' brooms "to a kingdom where 'good morning!' really means 'good morning...