Word: libya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fuad of I, all who died nations late that in failed April, to use was king force of in (1 applying Egypt, 2- sanctions Arabia, 3 against Morocco, Italy). 4 Libya, 5 Iran...
...only is an Anglo-Italian rapprochement desirable but it is necessary, and I will do everything in my power to bring it about. ... I do not see why there should be an armaments race in Africa. The garrison in Libya [adjoining Egypt] will not be withdrawn until an entente in the Mediterranean can be brought about, but the whole force will be brought home as soon as the British ships are withdrawn. . . . We are not a people given to rancor...
...Cairo, under strongest British pressure accompanied by a $100,000 British loan, the Egyptian Cabinet appropriated $470,000 for rush work on a strategic railway designed to improve defense against a possible invasion of Egypt by Italian forces from Libya. Bloodshed of this sort was being taken for granted in British garrisons throughout Egypt and the Sudan. As if acting in great emergency and unable to wait a few days for a regular British transport, the War Office took over from Cunard the small liner Scythia to be filled with troops in England and rushed to Egypt...
...Eight native soldiers killed their Italian officer in Libya, escaped over the border to Tunisia, surrendered to the French...
...names the world knows: Marconi, Volpi, Balbo, Grandi and others, scarcely one of whom has not been the butt of anti-Fascist insinuations that he had "quarreled with Mussolini" at one time or another. Air Marshal Italo Balbo, once rumored "banished'' to the post of Governor of Libya by the "jealous" Dictator, has been in Rome repeatedly since the outset of the war and on warplane shopping trips to France to strengthen Italy's air arm. As sanctions applied by the League of Nations (with Britain applying the spurs and France tugging on the check rein) came...