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...very backward about U.S. news: four papers in the Union of South Africa took the United Press service; Britain's Reuters went to Cairo. That was the sum total of U.S. news going to the Dark Continent. OWI now sends news, and lots of it, to Algiers, Casablanca, Accra, Brazzaville, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Asmara and Cairo. The news differs in treatment: that for Sweden is very "sophisticated," that for Africa "primitive." In India news about the U.S. has increased 800%-meaning that now 10% of foreign news in India is American. No one knows whether this news has any propaganda...
Except for the company of white women, recreation at the bases was sufficient. For $50 a man could buy a horse, feed and the services of a groom for a year. At Accra the swimming was good. By arrangement with movie companies, films were arrested in their flight to Cairo long enough for a showing at each base...
...reported, with a great air of knowledge, that U.S. combat forces were massing in western Africa (see map): in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon. If so, then the U.S., for all military purposes, had taken over the great coastal belt embracing the Allied ports of Freetown, Takoradi, Lagos and Accra, feeding the new air and surface supply routes to Egypt, the rest of the Middle East and Russia. Furthermore, if the Axis was right, U.S. forces were moving into positions from which they could attack Dakar...
Fortunately for Mr. Allen, necessary repairs to the bomber caused a 24-hour stayover at Accra and he was able to catch up with us traveling by regular Pan American service. It was at Accra that Mr. Allen asked permission to ride to Washington of Colonel Truesdale, of the U.S. Army Corps, who was in command of our plane. Colonel Truesdale wanted to take Mr. Allen but hesitated to do so without authority. He asked my view in the matter and I told him that since there was room in the plane (we had discharged three U.S. Army officers...
...TIME'S account of Hitchhiker Allen's bomber ride was based on an interview with him sent out by the Associated Press. His reply to Mr. Bullitt's letter: "I got my first opportunity to talk to Bullitt direct in Accra, but I fail to see how he could have missed knowing that I tried to get aboard both at Cairo and Khartoum, since I appealed to [ex-Minister to Bulgaria George H.] Earle, also Bullitt's secretary, to use influence to have Bullitt take...