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...untouched. Now airfields pock equatorial jungle and flinty desert, hop-stops for U.S. planes ferried across the South Atlantic bound for Egypt and the Middle East. Gun snouts poke out of many an African harbor protecting supply bases and ports where vital convoys collect. U.S., British, Free French and Belgian officials shuttle across the once dark continent that is dark no longer...
...created the fiction of an Unoccupied France and headed off French resistance from North Africa, one-third of Africa was at best neutralized, at worst pulled into the Axis orbit. The rest was saved for the United Nations: France's middle African colonies (Chad, Cameroun, Gabon), the rich Belgian Congo, onetime Italian East Africa. From Cape-Town to Cairo and west to Sierra Leone, Africa was preserved for Allied communications...
...contingent of U.S. troops arrived at Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo...
...Parke-Bernet Galleries, fabulously wealthy Belgian Baron Cassel van Doom stumped pompously to every important sale, solemnly focused a pair of high-powered binoculars on everything that reached the auction block. At Gimbels 84-year-old Spanish Millionaire José Lazaro Galdeano, his loud necktie half hidden by a grey spade beard, bought right & left, walked off with one of the season's most expensive buys ($26,742): François Boucher's L'Amour, reputedly posed by Mme. de Pompadour...
...still the German progress was only slightly slower than in France. At least for the moment, Russia's Maginot Line of men and tanks and guns was holding on the plains before Stalingrad. But southward the North Caucasian flatlands were suffering the same fate as the Dutch-Belgian lowlands. The Germans had wheeled south of Marshal Timoshenko's main defenses and were overrunning lightly defended territory up to the Caucasian foothills. Their swift advance down the transCaucasian railway left one body of the Red Army, probably a small one, cut off as were the British at Dunkirk. Instead...