Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters on kites flown from war ships and roofs of harbor buildings in Alexandria, Greek naval mutineers proclaimed themselves. The letters: EAM (Greek for National Liberation Front), name of the Communist guerrilla organization still fighting Germans in Greece...
Peril in August. "I remember well in August of last year when I came to join the Eighth Army. ... I was told the Eighth was in imminent danger of being attacked by Rommel and that at all costs it was to be preserved and withdrawn down the Alexandria-Cairo road. Plans were actually being worked out to move Army Headquarters back to Cairo. . . The Eighth required somebody to say to it : 'If we are attacked we will fight where we stand - we will fight hard!' And once that had been said there was no further trouble...
...French Navy symbolized a nation's renaissance. Side-by-side under the Tricolor, busily disembarking invasion troops and harassing the Germans, sailed the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc from Guadeloupe, the destroyers Le Fantasque and Le Terrible from Dakar, the destroyers Le Fortuné and Le Basque from Alexandria, the submarines Arétuse and Perle from Toulon...
Winston Churchill had good cause to feel pleased. Despite the wrangle over a "second front" he had persisted in putting first things first so that now Britain's lifeline from Gibraltar to Malta to Alexandria was secured. The solid red lines on the map showed more than the routes of a southern invasion of Europe. They showed that the geographical sinews-if not the social and political sinews-of the British Empire, upon which the U.S. depended too, had been saved and restored. That was one reason why Mr. Churchill was pleased to call the Mediterranean the "third front...
GAYLORD H. STREETER Alexandria...