Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hess grabbed an airliner to avoid importunate newsmen and photographers. > Mrs. Emma Hess Upchurch of Bristol, Va., a sister-in-law, was proud that her boy Gustave Adolf Hess Jr. is a U.S. Army volunteer. > Several U.S. organizations tried to forward firearms to fork-wielding Farmer David McLean. > In Cairo, Hess's old nurse was sure he was not crazy. > One newspaper report leered that Hess's toenails were painted red. > Collier's Correspondent William Hillman broadcast that Hess had been converted to Buchmanism, had flown to Britain to "share" his sins. > Said Parliament's court...
...Cairo, lank, balding metaphorist Captain James Roosevelt described the situation in Iraq as "well in hand, but rather deep-seated...
...disembarked at Egyptian ports. These men were in no shape to undertake another heroic defense. They and all the British forces in Egypt were woefully thin on heavy equipment. Of all the armored strength available before the Greek campaign, reportedly just one brigade remained in service in Egypt. However, Cairo reported the arrival there of U.S. materials last week, and Vichy sources said that no less than 26 U.S. merchant ships, "stacked to the funnels" with 75-mm. field guns and other materiel, and "convoyed" by U.S. naval vessels, had reached Suez. U.S. diplomats denied that materials reaching Egypt...
...China last fortnight Franklin Roosevelt's oldest son Jimmy addressed Hong Kong's American Club, last week shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking, heard his first air-raid alarm (minus planes), got ready to fly to Cairo for a firsthand view of British Near East strategy. Seeking Pacific Clip per passage for himself and Major Gerald Thomas, his companion, Jimmy had found the Clipper booked up. Most vulnerable reservation was that of a U.S. General. Captain Roosevelt...
Meanwhile the British Government warned: "In view of the German threat to bomb Athens and Cairo, His Majesty's Government wish it to be understood that if either of these two cities is molested, they will commence a systematic bombing of Rome. Once it has begun it will continue as convenient till the end of the war. The greatest care will be taken not to bomb the Vatican City." Benito ("War Is the Normal State of the People") Mussolini was again on a spot...