RF
nevertheless argued that the Senussi in general, and Emir Sidi Idris
in particular, were not necessarily hostile to the British: they were merchants; they had found that moving skins and ivory abroad for sale...
Travel
Rosita Forbes
Both of them continued to be great travellers, together or separately. A visit which RF
planned to Yemen (again in the guise of Khadija) in 1922 was supposed to lead on to a crossing of...
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1 September 1969: The aged King Idris of Libya, a paternalistic...
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1 September 1969
The aged King Idris
of Libya, a paternalistic ruler and an ally of the West, was deposed and the army took power in his place.
“2 September 1969. Of kings and colonels in Libya”. Guardian Weekly, p. 22.