Word: libya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country, and far from wanting to raise a revolt among the Arabs who came mostly into Britain's sphere of influence after World War I, Britain wanted nothing so much as to keep them quiet. But various dialects of Arabic are the language of Egypt, the Sudan and Libya, as well as of the Asiatic shore. Furthermore, the Arabs are expert desert soldiers and might prove useful allies to the British in Libya and the Sudan, where roads are almost as scarce as railroads, and the chief highways are furrows in the sand worn by the feet of generations...
...Italy is really going to fight Great Britain for supremacy in Africa, she must launch an overland campaign to take Alexandria. Main base for this attack must be Libya, where, since Air Marshal Italo Balbo's death,* fire-eating Marshal Rodolfo Graziani has been getting ready. (Onset of the rainy season in Ethiopia had slowed up preparations for a supplementary attack northward up the Nile tributaries from the Sudan border...
...British squadron steaming west below Crete. Italian airplanes flew out to meet this foe and (said the Italians) damaged a battleship and an aircraft carrier, sank a cruiser. Meantime, an Italian battle squadron put out to protect other Italian warships which were returning from a convoy trip to Libya and evidently were the target of the British raiders from the East. Next day, in an engagement in the Ionian Sea off Cape Spartivento (toe of the Italian "boot") lasting from mid-afternoon until nightfall, the Italian warships (said the Italians) "drove the British back from a threatened attack on important...
...knee reassurance. Discussing the death of Italo Balbo, a BBC announcer chattily inquired of his juvenile audience: "What happened to him? Was it an accident? Well, Mussolini and Balbo didn't agree about Italy's friendship with Germany; that's why Balbo was sent away to Libya. So if it was an accident, was it perhaps the sort of accident that happened to the German Field Marshal von Fritsch who disagreed with Hitler? You can't tell with dictators...
Over a fort in Italian Libya a British plane circled, dropped, not a bomb, but a note to the commanding officer, from Sir Arthur Longmore, Commander of the R. A. F. in the Middle East. The note expressed regret at the death of his onetime friend, Air Marshal Italo Balbo (TIME, July...