Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harried Italians had British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's word for it that Italy's African empire was gone. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Lion of Judah, licked his chops in the expectation of regaining Eritrea. In North Africa, the Grand Senussi Seyyid Mohamed Idris expected that Britain would hand him Cyrenaica under some form of protectorate. Disposition of Italian Libya and Tripoli had not yet been suggested...
Hitler, who sometimes knew a good soldier when he saw one, gave Rommel a free hand with the "Plan Sud"-the Rommel scheme for securing an African-Middle Eastern German empire. On the Baltic shores Rommel simulated desert conditions, trained the Afrika Korps with superheated barracks and artificial sandstorms. By March 1941 he went to Libya, to pull the faltering Italians out of defeat...
...Accra, one Adumua, Esq., a candidate for the local town council, bought space in the African Spokesman, modestly catalogued (in the third person) his qualifications for office...
Overseas, the North African theater was first found to have the greatest over-strength. It was ordered not only to move 10,000 general service troops into combat branches, but to return 10,000 limited servicemen immediately and 5,000 a month to the U.S. for replacements. In England, 12,000 were gleaned to be sent off with combat infantry...
Allied troops who escaped from Italian prison camps told how Carnera had been selected as the hero of a Fascist propaganda movie illustrating the physical superiority of Italians over African Negroes. For this purpose, the propagandists chose an impressive opponent for Carnera: a burly, six-foot-three Zulu prisoner from the Army of South Africa, Kay Masaki. He had never boxed before. He was fed nothing for three days, then placed in the ring with Carnera. The cameras started grinding...