Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumphal entry when the Australian troops should take the fort. These were the vanguard of 3,000,000 Moslems of the Senussi sect. Their leader, Seyyid Idris el Senussi, was all set to re-establish an independent Senussi State under British protection. But here, and also in northern Libya, Sir Archibald and the General Officer Commander in Chief in Egypt Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson were faced with an administrative problem as ticklish as that of Palestine. They had to decide whether to hand the land back to Arabs, or leave it in the hands of Italian settlers...
From the military point of view, also, the Libyan campaign left some unfinished business. The worst nuisance was German air activity. Last week for the first time, the R. A. F. revealed that not only were comparatively defenseless Junkers Stukas and Heinkel bombers being used by the Germans over Libya, but also some up-to-the-minute Messerschmitt fighters to cover them. In unconquered Libya there were still three important air bases-Homs, Misurata, Castel Benito (near Tripoli). But for the most part the Germans were operating out of Sicily...
Last week Italy's season of war was still in its driest blight. The Greeks continued to storm strategic heights, and continued to succeed in taking them. The R. A. F., easing off from its withering missions in Libya, intensified them in Greece. When the Italians attempted night counterattacks, they lost more ground than they had had in the first place...
ROME--Premier Bonito Mussolini's newspaper today predicted that an impending spring offensive against Britain will bring "a final Axis victory" while the Fascist High Command reported intensified German air attacks in Libya and the Mediterranean...
...Suda Bay, newly occupied base from which British are bombing southern Italy and threatening supply lines to Libya...