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...Families of men who lost their lives in the four wars fought by Italy in the present century-namely, the World, Libyan, Ethiopian and Spanish...
...made U. S. consul at Tunis. In 1804 he became "Navy Agent to the Barbary States" and as such led his heterogeneous force from Alexandria, Egypt, through the Libyan Desert and attacked Derna from the landward side while U. S. gunboats under Commodore Samuel Barron bombarded the town from the sea. Hot of temper and loose of tongue...
...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 in declaring war without the consent of Parliament," but nothing succeeds like success. After Socialist Giolitti had annexed administration of Libya, from Turkey by the Treaty of Ouchy, enthusiasm in Italy was such...
...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...
...exactly 10 o'clock members of the Grand Council of Fascism, followed by the Italian Cabinet, all in Fascist trimmings & trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...