Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patton's diary (kept from July 1942 to Dec. 5, 1945), but a separate book about the ETO campaigns which draws on his diary and what are referred to as "open" letters from the General to Mrs. Patton. An introductory section of letters from North Africa and Sicily will be an eye-opener for many a reader fattened on the journalists' "blood and guts" legend: "Just finished reading the Koran-a good book and interesting." Patton had a keen eye for native customs and methods, wrote knowingly of local architecture, even rated the progress of word-of-mouth...
...tterdämmerung. In Durban, South Africa, one A. Hitler was arrested and charged with assaulting his friend, Eva Braun...
Wheel In Bredasdorp, South Africa, Custodian F. Thorpe finally resigned after 30 years of conscientiously attending the clock on the local Dutch Reformed Church; the clock then let go and irresponsibly struck...
Could anyone in the world sleep more easily because of Stalin's bedtime message? Jan Christian Smuts is reputed a sound sleeper, chiefly because he gets to bed early, has often slept on camp cots or iron beds. But last week South Africa's weather-beaten, 77-year-old Prime Minister spoke of troubled nights. To women members of his United Party gathered in Pretoria he said: "Have you ever had the experience of waking at 2 o'clock in the morning in a sweat of not knowing how to solve the problems of tomorrow...
...plague that swept Africa...