Word: libya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dowager decked with diamonds is like a Great Power decked with colonies, because she is convinced that she has to have them and it often makes her angry to be asked why. Arid as diamonds is most of the Italian colony of Libya, for most of it consists of desert sands (see map, p. 23), but no Italian would dream of not defending this colonial diadem in case of need, and to Libya steamed last week nearly half the Royal Italian Navy to escort suitably and later be reviewed by His Excellency Benito Mussolini, Leader of the Party and Head...
When Rome correspondents are asked by editors abroad to scratch their heads and name an Italian who might be considered "Mussolini's rival" they generally name the Governor-General of Libya, His Excellency Grand Councilman Italo Balbo. Reason: Balbo led a mighty mass formation flight of Italian planes in 1933 to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and it is logical to suppose that the Lindbergh publicity he thus won "made Mussolini jealous," had its sequel when Il Duce packed him off out of the world's limelight to rule Libya. Last month Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew...
...mastery of Mussolini in Italy more completely than the way in which he managed to dominate Balbo, loading him with the rank of Air Marshal in reward for his Century of Progress flight, embracing him publicly while ecstatic Romans huzzahed, and then packing him off to be Governor of Libya, puncturing the world bubble of his fame, so that today not everyone remembers Italo Balbo. This sort of abrupt shift Il Duce constantly employs as a method, calls it ""changing the guard," keeps even Fascism's greatest dignitaries ever on the qui vive, for no Cabinet Minister can be sure...
...Libya is more than twice, as big as Texas, seven times larger than Italy, but it has not a single river, and the poor people live mainly on dates and date paste. Of the 700.000 inhabitants some 500,000 are Mohammedans, about a third of these Negroes. Jews number about 27,000, Italians some 36,000, and sporadic nomads account for the rest. That Italy owns Libya she owes to her famed Socialist, the late Giovanni Giolitti, who was five times Premier, staged the Libyan War in 1911. He was hotly accused by moderates and conservatives of "unconstitutional conduct...
Belligerent Rights. It was part of the Hoare-Laval Deal that withdrawal of British war boats from the Mediterranean would be followed by similar reduction to peace strength of the Italian garrisons in Libya facing the British positions in Egypt which Il Duce crammed with troops to call the Baldwin bluff. Last week a Rome press spokesman confirmed: "We want to see the British ships actually leave." This week Italy emptied Libya of 40,000 troops, announced that it will leave its Libyan air force of 100 bombers and its border fortifications intact...