Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Premier Mussolini disported himself in Tripoli, the white-haired Irishwoman who attempted to assassinate him (TIME, April 19) sat in a prison cell in Rome, closely watched by Italian nuns...
Triumph. Part of the "work" to which Premier Mussolini recalled his Ministers consisted of last minute preparations for a voyage across the Mediterranean to Italian Tripoli, upon which the Premier was scheduled to embark late in the week, accompanied by the new Fascist directorate (headed by Turati) and by numerous provincial secretaries of the Fascist party. True to his words, Mussolini set sail ? on the day following Miss Gibson's attack...
Imperial Welcome. With the tip of his nose brown with iodine but unbandaged, Signer Mussolini landed at Tripoli amid a salute of 19 guns, an honor previously reserved for princes of the blood. Mounted on a charger, he reviewed for over an hour a military procession in which walked and rode native warriors in every sort of brilliant and picturesque attire together with every device for military transport, from Arabian dromedaries to Italian tanks...
...Fascist Italian Tripoli! You represent here Italy which is daily more prosperous and powerful. Rome carries the beacon lamp of strength to the shores of the African sea. No one can stop our inexorable will...
...speech will deal with the excavation of ruins and monuments of Leptis Magna which have been going on for two or three years under the direction of the Italian government. Leptis Magna is an ancient city of Africa situated a few miles inland on the coast of Tripoli. The city as it was in its glory, was largely the creation of the Emperor Septimius Magnus, who was born there and flourished about the year 200 A. D. It was the desire of the Emperor to create this African city a second Rome, and therefore laid it out and built...