Word: libya
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity, and Rome there was bad fog. He was glad to get beyond Rome. "After that for a long time I seem to remember nothing but endless stretches of desert. Once I sighted a group of Arab tents with tethered camels. A whole day I was lost in Libya and as I was trying to clear a space in the desert for a take off, a party of Arabs cantered up. It was an anxious moment. There were friendly overtures on my part and then they helped me with the clearing. A few minutes later I was again pushing...
From Malta the Air Knight and Lady continued across the Mediterranean to Italian Tripoli upon the Afric shore. Thence across Libya to Egypt and Cairo, where Lady Maud donned her afternoon dress for tea at Shepherds Hotel. Next day the Hercules soared over the Holy Land, descending at Ziza in Palestine. Thence the 543-mile flight to Bagdad was taken in a single jump. Persia and "the road that leadeth to Isphan" loomed...
From South and West Africa, Morocco, Mesopotamia, Transjordania, Tripoli, Tunis, Syria, Libya, Java, India there came to Cairo last week grave and potent Mohammedans, who solemnly entered and squatted within the mosque of Islam's most ancient university, El Azhar
...Rome. The Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations convened under the presidency of the Marquis Alberto Theodori and received the report of France touching her administration of the mandated territories of Syria and Libya. Count Robert de Caix, Secretary-General of the French High Commission in Syria, and Count Gaston Clauzel, Director of the French Service of the League of Nations, did their best to explain why the French bombarded Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9). The session was naturally behind closed doors, but attentive listeners heard enough to evolve the catch phrase: "For the first time in history...
...inability of the Spaniards to quell the rebels in their area of Morocco caused grave apprehension in France and Italy. The map of Northern Africa depicts four areas whose inhabitants are under the suzerainty of foreign Powers: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya. Morocco is mainly under French dominion and is a remarkable example of how low the great Shereefian Empire has fallen; for, still a monarchy, it is subjected to the French Republic and is now of little or no political importance. Algeria and Tunisia are likewise French possessions, while the greater part of Libya belongs to Italy under the name...