The Fascist Government decided to cultivate the fertile valleys near the sea, and 25,000 Italian colonists, taken from the poorest provinces of Italy, were sent to Cyrenaica to settle there. In 1934 Cyrenaica and Tripolitania were joined to form a single colony: Libya.
'When the Italian colonists arrived, the first thing' they did was to re-Move scrub, carob trees, and masti¢ trees and replace them with olive trues, vineyards, fruit trees and wheat fields.
In 1940 Libya's total population was nearly 1,000,000. Of this figure, 70,000 were Europeans, mostly Italian colonists, Benghazi, which has been made into a modern port, had 35,000 inhabitants, and Demo, the centre of Italian colonization in Libya, had Mr. Justice W. Van Devanter Washington, Feb. 9. ea. 'Yan' Dévanter, Associate Yot the US. Supreme Court
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