A new nation was born this week.
In Tripoli and Benghazi, where proconsuls of the Phoenicians, the Caesars and the Ottomans once reigned, and the shards of Mussolini's latter-day empire molder mockingly in the African sun, bright new flags proclaimed the birth of the United Kingdom of Libya. A sage old Moslem spiritual leader became the world's newest King, Idris I of Libya. Three territories, separated by wide deserts and mutual distrustCyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan were united under a Western-style parliament and a constitution scissored and pasted together from the laws of twelve other countries.
A Word for It. The birth is...
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