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...19th Century the British, the French and finally the Italians each grabbed themselves a wedge of Ethiopia's shore. In their portion called Eritrea (pop. 1,000,000; area 50,000 sq. mi.), the Italians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist era rebuilt the old city of Asmara. From Eritrea the Italians launched their conquest of Emperor Haile Selassie's domain. It took World War II to drive the Italians out again and put Haile Selassie back on the throne...
Died. Jack Nichols, 49, T.W.A.'s vice president in charge of international operations, onetime Congressman from Oklahoma (who headed a House committee investigating airplane crashes); in an Army 6-25 crash; on an airline survey flight from Asmara, Eritrea, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...
...news: four papers in the Union of South Africa took the United Press service; Britain's Reuters went to Cairo. That was the sum total of U.S. news going to the Dark Continent. OWI now sends news, and lots of it, to Algiers, Casablanca, Accra, Brazzaville, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Asmara and Cairo. The news differs in treatment: that for Sweden is very "sophisticated," that for Africa "primitive." In India news about the U.S. has increased 800%-meaning that now 10% of foreign news in India is American. No one knows whether this news has any propaganda effect. It probably...
With the fall of Cheren, the British hoped for no further major battle in Eritrea. They pressed on through the hills at once toward the capital, Asmara, as fast as sappers ahead of the armored-car spearhead could clear away land mines and landslides left by the Italians. Ahead of the sappers the R.A.F. continued its bombardment, destroying trucks and twisting bridges. Beyond Asmara lies Massaua, Eritrea's only good port, which the Royal Navy had tightly corked and hoped soon to possess...
CAIRO--British mechanized forces, biting off the entire northern triangle of Italian Eritrea, have reached the Red Sea and captured the town of Mersa Taclai while R.A.F. bombers laid siege to the Eritrean capital of Asmara, it was stated officially today...