Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Human slavery exists today in Abyssinia, Tibet, Afghanistan, the Hejaz, Morocco, Tripoli, the Libyan Desert, Rio de Oro, Liberia, China, Arabia, Egypt, the Sudan, Eritrea, French, British and Italian Somaliland, Angola and Mozambique, in most independent Mohammedan States, and in Nepal and the Philippines...
...armaments and counter-armaments, diplomacy, national honor, and the press. He shows how these factors were at work since 1870 in Europe. He sketches the formation of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. He goes deeper into such specific causes for unrest as Morocco, the annexation of Bosnia, Tripoli, the Bagdad Railway, Persia, the Far East, and the Balkan wars...
Before 1914, when Italy was struggling to imitate her sister imperialists, the cry for a reincarnated Roman state followed each slight success. It followed the slow conquest of Tripoli, won after defeats at the hands of native troops, such as Caucasians have seldom undergone. It fed itself on the spirit of nationalism and a tariff to create industry. But up to the war, poverty remained the characteristic feature of the Italian state...
From South and West Africa, Morocco, Mesopotamia, Transjordania, Tripoli, Tunis, Syria, Libya, Java, India there came to Cairo last week grave and potent Mohammedans, who solemnly entered and squatted within the mosque of Islam's most ancient university, El Azhar
...following Great Powers to "take steps": Great Britain, if the "Green Mantle of the Prophet" should descend upon King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak or the Aga Kahn; Italy, if Sheik Achmet of the Senussites should receive the "Sacred Sword" and begin swishing it near Italian Tripoli; France, if the "Holy Standard" (the third emblem of the Calif) should be unfurled in the Riff by Abd-El-Krim, or by one of the Sultans in the vicinity of Syria...