Word: protectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, Mussolini's record in Libya has shown that he falls far short of being the "Protector of Islam." In less than a generation of Italian rule, the Moslems in Eritrea have decreased from over a million to 400,000. And Hitler's prestige is not raised by his contemptuous references to the Arabs in "Mein Kampf...
...information on where U-boats, enemy raiders and planes are operating. By the afternoon the plotted charts and recommended courses are forwarded to the naval staff for study. Then directions are teletyped to the secret headquarters, in a west-coast port, of the man whom Britons consider the protector of the Atlantic: Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander in Chief of the Western Approaches...
...nearly 20 years. Insatiably, week after week, legions of boys gobbled him up between paper covers, price 5?. Their parents approved, for Frank was incarnate perfection ("frank and merry in nature, well in body and mind"). He was not only a superb athlete with no vices, but a protector of the bullied, a friend to the friendless. As a pitcher he could make his curve ball break either...
...previous tenant, a harlot, and some of her clients. Further annoyances are a drug clerk who brings Eileen unappetizing "specials" from his counter and a reporter whose mind is not on the news. A Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech, waiting for the pro football season, is a tough protector to the girls but insists on lunging through their room in his underwear. Finally Ruth is followed home by six Brazilian naval officers...
...British were last week busy offsetting Mussolini's claim to be "Protector of Islam." To England's Moslems the British Treasury, which is already subsidizing pilgrimages of the faithful from India to Mecca (TIME, Nov. 18), has given a tidy ?100,000 ($400,000) for a mosque, promised them a site in London for it. In Libya when a force of Australians holed up a body of Italians at the oasis of Jarabub, the R. A. F. knew better than to bomb it. Jarabub has several holy Moslem buildings and the British did not intend to injure...