Word: tripolitania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rousing prologue to the "awakening" had been delivered two days previously in the Chamber of Deputies by Colonial Minister Luigi Federzoni. "One of the most brilliant pages in the world's colonial history," cried he, "is inscribed with the story of how Italian troops have recently occupied in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica an additional area one third the size of Italy at a paltry cost of less than 57,000,000 lira...
Concluding, Signer Federzoni boasted that during May 1928 the last wedge-shaped strip of territory formerly dividing Tripolitania from Cyrenaica has now been occupied...
While Il Duce was embracing and triumphing at Rome, last week, there was left to King Vittorio Emanuele III?who has just returned from a state visit to Tripolitania and Cyrenaica?merely the cold, staid duty of honoring at Turin the late Emanuele Filberto, Duke of Savoy, born in 1528. All that could pertinently be said about Duke Filberto was compressed into a trenchant oration by famed Senator Sem Benelli, author of The Jest, a grewsome play which Actor John Barrymore made a hit-show in the U. S. some years...
...Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi, General Emilio de Bono, Governor of Tripolitania, and many another potent Fascist have short beards...
...concensus of reports to date: 1) During November, Undersecretary for Aviation Italo Balbo and General Emilio De Bono, Governor of Tripolitania, perfected the details of the plot. (They with Signer Mussolini led the famed march on Rome [1922] which brought Fascismo into power.) 2) A letter from General De Bono to Secretary Balbo concerning the plot fell into the hands of General Pietro Badoglio, the Army Chief of Staff, and a staunch, loyal monarchist. 3) General Badoglio promptly called a cavalry regiment and two artillery regiments to Rome, ordered them to guard King Vittorio Emanuele and the royal family...