Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Super-careful South African censors finally released a story of the days when the Italians were rampant and the Allies unprepared. Back in 1940 a South African crew took an ancient Valencia biplane loaded with supplies, ferried them to a Kenya outpost south of Mussolini's then-powerful Ethiopian empire. At dinner an engineer told them about a nearby Italian fort "simply waiting to be bombed...
...Clark and many of his men it was now the third year of active fighting. Some of the soldiers now patrolling in the heights of the Apennines had landed in North Africa Nov. 8, 1942. They had been blooded in the African campaign, tempered in the attack on Sicily, pounded into tough, battlewise, battle-weary veterans in the painful crawl up the Italian boot. As the third year began there was still the hard prospect of another winter on the bitter soil of Italy...
There are as many Indians (200,000) in the South African province of Natal as in the Indian city of Benares. Some 35 years ago Mohandas K. Gandhi, then a fully clothed Natal attorney (see cut), first used passive resistance in defending the Natal Indians against repressive race legislation...
Army education authorities reported last week that in Accra, on the African Gold Coast, two G.I.s had refused furloughs so that they would not miss their classes at the "G.I. College of Accra." From Accra to Adak in the Aleutians, in informal Army and Navy "colleges" which supplement the correspondence courses sent out by USAFI (TIME, Feb. 21), servicemen are studying everything from reading to calculus. Some of the 700,000 students to date...
...High Commissioner for South Africa, autobiographer (Commando, Trekking On); in London. Afrikaner Reitz escaped from the British to Madagascar after the Boer War, returned from exile at the invitation of his good friend Jan Smuts, fought with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in World War I, became omnipresent in South African public life...