Word: libya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People "of the Hebraic race" who have settled in the Kingdom of Italy, Libya or Italian Aegean Islands since Jan. 1, 1919 were last week ordered by the Italian Cabinet to depart before March 1, 1939 or be forcibly expelled. Commented No. 1 Fascist Newspundit Virginio Gayda: "These Jews, political or racial refugees of other countries, represent a foreign and perilous body and spirit inserted in the body and spirit of the Italian nation." The decree will oust about 20,000 of the estimated 85,000 persons in Italy "born of both parents of the Hebrew race." Next...
This instance the learned Sheik cited to buttress his assertion last week that the hailing of Benito Mussolini by the Moslems of Libya as "Protector of Islam" (TIME, March 22) and his triumphant entry into Tripoli marked more cozening of a bribe-giving Christian by the wily infidels. "Our religion makes it impossible for us to be loyal to a non-Moslem ruler," smiled the Sheik. "You will hardly find 1,000 Moslems among the 160,000,000 under British rule who are not eager to shake it off, and the same is true of the Italians and the French...
...Madrid Defense Junta with having committed a slip tending to prove that Italians fighting in Spain are not "volunteers" as Rome maintains but Italian regulars. What Madrid claimed was a message from Il Duce flashed to Italian commanders in Spain which read : "Aboard the Pola on my way to Libya I have received your dispatches...
When Italy had to spend every lira she could scrape together on the World War, she virtually abandoned Libya and at times enemy German submarines made so bold as to operate openly out of at least one of its harbors...
...instantaneous shift last week from Jeffersonian history to the Mohammedan present, Dictator Mussolini received the homage of an assemblage of tribesmen led by Mohammed Abd-el-Gheder who cried: "All peoples will declare that your visit to Libya has bound the East to the West and has united Islam and Italy! Allah, through you, is restoring peace and pros perity to mankind." Off in a motorcade of 60 cars whirled Mussolini & Balbo, the ten-day program including major Mohammedan homage at the Arch of Triumph* newly erected at the halfway point on the motor road, then opening of the annual...