Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Losing the French Navy would seriously affect Britain's fortunes in war with Mussolini through a vast 40,000-mile theatre stretching from Gibraltar to Aden, because all land forces involved therein must be supplied by sea. Commanding the British naval forces based on Alexandria was Vice Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, who last week had to report the torpedoing of the anti-aircraft cruiser Calypso, apparently during action against Italy's Libyan base at Tobruch. His ships sank several Italian submarines and the old cruiser San Giorgio remodeled for coast defense. The British said they were mining...
Alongside her dock in the sun-baked harbor of Alexandria one day last week lay American Export Lines' S. S. Excalibur, loading to the rattle of donkey engines and the babble of Levantine tongues. Day before, as the Excalibur docked, three days out of Naples, Italy had declared war, and the whole Mediterranean Sea had become a war zone barred by the neutrality laws to U. S. ships. Ahead of grim-faced Skipper Samuel Norman Groves lay stops at Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut, a run through the eastern islands to Piraeus, second calls at Naples and Genoa. Then...
Desperately, helplessly countries did what they could to prepare. In Egypt, Royal-Dutch-Shell Oil Co. fired 700 Italians overnight; Alexandria began evacuating incompetents. Italian laborers and pilots were discharged from the Suez Canal. Greece grew sensitive about vitM Salonika. Rumania called up 100,000 more...
Where? was the question of the hour (see p. 29). Great Britain and France took precautions all around the Mediterranean. In Malta, Enrico Mizzi, Nationalist leader of the Council of Government, and a Catholic Actionist named Herbert Ganado were interned. In Cairo and Alexandria 700 fifth-columnist suspects were clapped into internment camps. An evacuation caravan took civilians away from Menton on the French-Italian frontier, prepared to evacuate Monte Carlo next...
Mostly the natives liked what they saw of the Army in Alexandria, Dry Prong Natchitoches, along the dusty roads and at Camp Beauregard (where at night the clustered, lighted tents were like an incandescent half-orange). Military police had little to do. As many soldiers went to drugstores for malted milks as to honky-tonks for beer...