Word: libya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next day New York Timesman Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. cabled from London: "Last night the most urgent kind of warning reached the British Government from wise, faithful Ambassador Drummond to the effect that Mussolini was convinced Britain intended to make war upon him and therefore had poured new troops into Libya"-i.e. opposite the British position in Egypt...
...independence in regard to England. . . " Since Britain assured Italy officially that her fleet concentration in the Mediterranean is not anti-Italian (TIME, Oct. 7), the Dictator urged that tension be eased by withdrawing some British ships, indicated that he was ready in return to withdraw some Italian troops from Libya where they have been said to menace the British position in Egypt. "The League of Nations-and even more the good sense of governments-might furnish us with many solutions." Premier Mussolini told M. Sauerwein at parting, "It would be strange if the League, which was created to avoid wars...
...Fascist Senate at Rome last week, Undersecretary for Colonies Alessandro Lessona had just finished arousing speech on his colonial budget, on conditions in the North African colony of Libya. Up to the tribune stomped Benito Mussolini himself...
...Mutual agreement upon final demarcation of the long-disputed African frontier between Italian Libya and French West Africa...
Thus it is evident that the old diplomacy is not dead. Open covenants, openly arrived at, may at any time be supplemented by gentlemen's agreements, of no legal value but of tremendous actual importance. The annexation of Libya by Italy in 1911 was the result of just such an agreement, and it may well be that Abyssinia in 1934 will be similarly Europeanized...