Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis there was just as much pother. The Italian press simply parroted Berlin's official statements. Tokyo, on the other hand, showed plainly how puzzled it felt. Japanese papers dug up the dirtiest word they could think of, called Hess an Anglophile because he was born in Alexandria, lived there until he was twelve years old. (Until 1939 his father and mother remained in Egypt.) The land of Bushido (loyalty) could not understand how a man could run out on his boss. If it was all a great big clever Axis plot, the Japanese were...
...British were baffled. They had thought this would be a major push. They had withdrawn hastily, scarcely offering rear-guard resistance, apparently willing to fall back 120 miles to Matrûh, the railhead from Alexandria, where the main British force was based...
World War II had cut into the pilgrim business, and the Zamzam was signed over to foreign trade. Last March she set out from eastern U.S. ports for Alexandria, by the long route to South America and around the Cape of Good Hope. "Although Egypt is not at war," said the Zamzam's Captain William Gray Smith, before sailing from Jersey City, "she is considered a nonbelligerent ally of England and we could not take any chances...
...cruisers, a destroyer and three merchantmen. Next day German bombers attacked again south of Malta and claimed hits. When the convoy had had time to get out of danger, the British denied that a single vessel had been hit. Rome admitted that British warships (possibly going out from Alexandria to meet the convoy) had treated the Axis Libyan supply port at Bengasi to a thorough shelling...
...clock this morning press services had no details about the sinking. The United States Consult in Alexandria stated that he had heard a report of the sinking but had no information about the fate of the ship or its passengers...