Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Them Rant." In Washington's confusion after Pearl Harbor, Stilwell almost got the assignment which would have developed into command of the North African expedition. If the acid of his insecure and suspicious personality had been poured over U.S.-British relations, calamity might have come more dramatically. Stilwell's contempt was not confined to the Chinese government. In his diary and letters he sneered at the British, at Washington, at Mountbatten and at Chennault, who had been in China four years before Stilwell got there...
Eileen Gibson, an actress of sorts, had been playing Lorna, the prizefight manager's floozy in a South African production of Golden Boy. Some testified that she was something like Lorna in real life. Others testified that she was given to inexplicable bouts of hysteria and fainting; that she had said she was pregnant; that she had accepted her fare home and ?350 from a nightclub owner...
...reported by ships and airplanes almost from minute to minute. But between South Africa and South America, there are few ships, and only one small weather station, on the island of Tristan da Cunha. Since most storms in the area strike from the west, a wave recorder on the African coast might give a day or two of warning before a storm arrives. Dr. Deacon also believes that a competent oceanographer might make a good living by setting up a wave recorder on the coast of Chile and watching for storms approaching from the lonely South Pacific. When he noted...
...course, were professionally interested in the South African press and in the newspaper men who conduct it. They turned out to be an alert and very enterprising group of journalists, and their newspapers reflect those attributes. I was impressed by the knowingness of their questions about the forthcoming Presidential election in the U.S. and by their knowledge of the U.S.'s role in world affairs...
...Pescara results, crowed triumphantly: "The Front has shown itself to be an instrument capable of drawing together and organizing all Italians without difference of class. . . ." Following up their advantage, the Front pointed to other promises. Moscow favored Italian trusteeship under the U.N. for Italy's prewar African colonies; if the Front won power in the April elections, a way might be found to bring Trieste back under Italian control.* What, asked the Front, could Premier de Gasperi offer? The Front's answer: only more U.S. meddling in Italian affairs; the threat of involvement...