Balbo unfortunate; LETTERS to the EDITOR.I AM amused that the Royal Navy chooses to refer to a formation of its warplanes as a Balbo (Daily Post, Thursday, page 6). The term originates from Mussolini''s marshal of the air force, Italo Balbo Italo Balbo (June 5, 1896 - June 28, 1940) was an Italian blackshirt leader, aviator, governor of Libya, and heir apparent of Mussolini. Biography Early life Balbo was born in Quartesana, near Ferrara (Italy), in 1896. , who led the invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. Apart from commemorating one of the final acts of European colonialism colonialism Control by one power over a dependent area or people. The purposes of colonialism include economic exploitation of the colony's natural resources, creation of new markets for the colonizer, and extension of the colonizer's way of life beyond its national borders. in Africa, it also leads one to wonder if an alternative name for a fleet of military aircraft might be a "Goering"? At a time when the armed forces are putting as much distance as they can between themselves and the far-right British National Party
A. B. Smith, Liverpool 8 |
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