Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier at the outbreak of World War II, Maher dutifully followed the British lead and broke off diplomatic relations with the Axis in 1939. Later, when Maher began receiving visits from Goebbels, Mussolini's Balbo and their ilk, the British became suspicious and complained to Farouk. The King dismissed Maher, and in 1942 the British arranged to have him placed under "house arrest" for the duration...
Starhemberg in the '30s seemed to be riding the wave of the future. But he made one great error. At a time when Hitler and Mussolini were still at odds, he chose the wrong fascist as his patron. With Mussolini footing the bills, he fought the Nazi Anschluss. When the "Nazis finally took over the Austria that he had so diligently weakened, one of their first acts was to confiscate the Starhemberg castles and estates...
Died. Joseph ("Jo") Davidson, 68, bearded portrait sculptor of celebrities (Madame Chiang Kaishek, D. H. Lawrence, Lloyd George, F.D.R., Gandhi, Mussolini), sometime political dabbler (cochairman of the Progressive Citizens of America in 1947, co-chairman of the Wallace-for-President Committee in 1948) ; of a heart attack; in Tours, France. Born of Russian-Jewish immigrants on Manhattan's lower East Side, Davidson began as a newsboy. In 1907 he headed for Europe with a $40 stake to study art. Since 1910 he had shuttled busily and profitably between the U.S. and Europe. His most important commission: bronze busts...
...Tripoli and Benghazi, where proconsuls of the Phoenicians, the Caesars and the Ottomans once reigned, and the shards of Mussolini's latter-day empire molder mockingly in the African sun, bright new flags proclaimed the birth of the United Kingdom of Libya. A sage old Moslem spiritual leader became the world's newest King, Idris I of Libya. Three territories, separated by wide deserts and mutual distrust-Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan -were united under a Western-style parliament and a constitution scissored and pasted together from the laws of twelve other countries...
...national per capita income is $35 a year-lowest of all Arab countries, with the possible exception of Yemen. Italians. of whom there are still 47,000 out of the thousands who immigrated to Libya when it was to become Mussolini's model col ony, still hold many of the best jobs, own the best farms, run the best businesses. Eight-tenths of the people are farmers or nomadic herdsmen, yet a U.N. survey team reports discouragedly that the country "is hardly able to afford an adequate diet for its own people...