Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm hand of the British Empire clamped definitely this week around the neck of one of her stiffest-necked subjects. Somewhere in the Empire, perhaps in Cairo, perhaps in the Far East, Premier U Maung Saw of Burma was fussing and fuming under detention...
...went on to say that "the manner of Mr. Brown's broadcasts over a period of months led the authorities to regard him as persona non grata." It appeared that Cecil Brown had been arguing with the censors, as he had argued before in Rome and also in Cairo. His silencing in Singapore, however, was the first case of an Allied reporter of known integrity being denied the use of the Allied radio...
...British Eighth Army was preparing to clean up its rear. In an assault on Bardia, South African troops went in with the bayonet against Axis units after a preliminary air and tank blitz. According to Cairo, the whole Axis force, "rather than face repetition [of the attack], decided to surrender unconditionally." When the smoke of battle cleared away, the British found themselves with 7,500 Axis prisoners and General Rommel's right-hand man, Chief Administrative Staff Officer Major General Schmidt. British losses were 60 dead, 300 wounded. The British rescued 1,150 of their own troops imprisoned...
...Otto H. Kahn winged for home from Cairo after two and a half years abroad. The onetime mistress of two fabulous mansions planned to settle in a Manhattan apartment...
...York Times Correspondent Joseph M. Levy wrote from Cairo last week: "The British armored forces and infantry units have broken the Axis line west of el-Gazála and have sent the Germans reeling backward in headlong retreat." Other reports also had General Erwin Rommel's Army "reeling backward." BBC claimed this week that Rommel was abandoning Bengasi and retreating towards Tripoli...