Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This instance the learned Sheik cited to buttress his assertion last week that the hailing of Benito Mussolini by the Moslems of Libya as "Protector of Islam" (TIME, March 22) and his triumphant entry into Tripoli marked more cozening of a bribe-giving Christian by the wily infidels. "Our religion makes it impossible for us to be loyal to a non-Moslem ruler," smiled the Sheik. "You will hardly find 1,000 Moslems among the 160,000,000 under British rule who are not eager to shake it off, and the same is true of the Italians and the French...
...Mussolini has it that the Dictator thought what Balbo needed was not more publicity and a swelled head but tough, responsible, empire-building work likely to forge his wild daring into the mold of a mature Italian statesman. The typical Sunday supplement story has Balbo "banished to Libya," whereas Tripoli is only seven hours from Rome by the daily Italian air service and Governor Balbo continues to set foot in the Eternal City every few months, recently attended the Roman wedding of Son Vittorio Mussolini (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week the Dictator's inspection trip to Balboland again made...
...Mussolini flew to Amseat on the Egyptian frontier. There, where a 200-mi. barbed-wire Egyptian boundary fence begins its southern sweep, he inaugurated the Balbo-built "Greatest Highway in Africa," 1,200 miles of macadamized strategic coastal road, over which Il Duce soon would drive back westward to Tripoli, the colonial capital. Before setting out he first inspected elaborate underground fortifications along the coast and flew from Tobruk to Derna, a name stirring to every historically-minded U. S. Marine...
...Allah, through you, is restoring peace and pros perity to mankind." Off in a motorcade of 60 cars whirled Mussolini & Balbo, the ten-day program including major Mohammedan homage at the Arch of Triumph* newly erected at the halfway point on the motor road, then opening of the annual Tripoli Sample Fair by Il Duce. a dash by air almost up to the French frontier, a performance of Oedipus Rex in the ancient Roman amphitheatre near Tunisia, and finally a second grand Italian day & night naval review with plenty of Fascist fireworks. Much as onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II used...
Hopping off after a week's sightseeing in Rome, Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh paused at Palermo, Sicily, stopped at Tripoli to visit Governor-General Italo Balbo, flew on to Cairo...