Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absence of concrete facts demonstrating Democracy's superiority over Dictatorship is deplorable. Instead of protestations of eternal friendship followed by threats of total annihilation, Italians would like, for instance, to hear: 1) that Fascist printing presses in Tunis and Tripoli are now printing democratic Italian newspapers; 2) that the property of Fascists who fled from these cities has been confiscated, their mansions turned into rest homes for tired workmen...
...Rosenson thought he knew all about the British when he landed in England last July-how they would fight to the last American, etc., etc. Six months later he was ready to admit that the British had a few good points: after bailing out of a flaming Fortress over Tripoli, he remembered enough of an R.A.F. pamphlet on how to find food and water in the desert to get back to his outfit. For the next four months, Navigator Rosenson had a birdman's-eye-view of the British at work in Tunisia. Back in London last week...
...Stubby-legged, barrel-bellied Marshal Ugo Cavallero, who succeeded Badoglio in Greece, was dismissed after Tripoli fell. Before the war he accumulated a fortune while he was Under Secretary in the War Ministry...
...Alamein, at Bengasi, at Tripoli, at the Mareth Line and finally at Bizerte and Tunis, the battle for the southern shore of the Mediterranean had been won by the Allies. Now it was time to fight for the islands of that sea and for its northern shores...
...Desert Victory" is a first rate documentary of the El Alamein-Tripoli phase in the Eighth Army's North African advance. It translates the newspaper headlines of the past months into specific and personal detail; it shows, in the determined action and tense faces of the men themselves, how the Eighth Army halted its retreat, "dug in" to hold off Field Marshal Rommel, and knocked his "invincible" strategy into a cocked hat by breaking through the German panzer wall and advancing some 1400 miles through desert dust...