Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck will probably remain Commander in Chief of both, Cairo did not say who would lead the separate armies. Best guess: veteran General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson would take over the Western Desert Army, Australia's General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney the Syrian...
Great Britain split her rapidly expanding Middle Eastern forces last week. G.H.Q. (Cairo) announced that henceforth the Army of the Nile would be divided into an Army of the Western Desert and an Army of Syria and Palestine...
...British had to choose between two evils. If they gave the Egyptians their tooth for a tooth and bombed Rome, they might precipitate mass raids on panicky Cairo. If they did not bomb Rome, they might keep Cairo running smoothly as center of their Middle Eastern campaigns but British prestige would suffer a further dip in Islam's eyes...
With the Pope and Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt's envoy, talking peace aims at the Vatican, Britain thought again. London mumbled that only suburbs of Cairo had been bombed...
...marriage to Princess Fawziya, sister of Egypt's King Farouk, was celebrated by a fabulous wedding in 1939, which lasted five weeks, began in Cairo and ended in Teheran. During it a knock-down fight between his father and his bride's mother broke up the celebration. Queen Nazli of Egypt wanted the dowry salted away in the National Bank of Egypt, but Reza would have none of it. In a huff the Queen left the nuptials flat, and Reza had all the triumphal arches in Teheran torn down. The dowry stayed in Iran...