Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Hobby's successor was 43-year-old Colonel Westray Battle Boyce, widow and onetime government worker, who started in the WACs two years ago, served as a supply sergeant, rose rapidly through the ranks to staff director of WACs in the North African theater and finally director on the Washington staff of Oveta Hobby...
Sidi Lamine was not the only distinguished African visitor to Paris in recent weeks. He had been preceded by Sidi Mohamed Ben Youseff, Sultan of Morocco, who had received the Croix de la Liberation (his son Prince Moulay Hassan was also decorated-see cut) and was shown a hydroelectric dam in the Auvergne Mountains. Behind these comings & goings was potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria...
...country south of Matabeleland, the old forms were dying fast. The inhabitants of the two principal white territories (Britain's Cape Colony and the independent South African Republic of Dutch-descended Boer farmers) were no longer surrounded by wild Hottentots, Zulus, Bastaards and Griquas. The country was yielding to an influx of foreigners who made treaties with the tribes, drove them into subjection, renamed the old lands, established new laws...
...until that step of high statesmanship had been achieved would India's Viceroy be free to turn to another project -a biography of Belisarius, Byzantine conqueror of the North African Vandals...
Stressing the vital importance of the CATS mission, Brigadier-General Bryan said that Civil Affairs officers have to furnish the follow-through to the Army's combat operations. He cited the history of the CATS experiences, pointing to the unpreparedness and mismanagement before and during the North African campaign. "But after Sicily, where the CATS were viewed at first with skepticism and later with gratification and even enthusiasm, the Civil Affairs officers have become very much in demand," General Bryan continued