Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After booming the circulation of Egyptian newspapers for the past two months, the trial of Ahmed Salem, biggest Cairo sensation of the decade, came to its quaint close last week. The sloe-eyed, romantic Egyptian public loves a love story. This one was dished up hot and fresh every morning in court when pomaded, silk-shirt-wearing Ahmed Salem's expensively gowned wife Amina rushed in and was permitted to embrace the prisoner passionately just as the judge was taking his seat. Ahmed stood accused of "bribery, forgery and perjury" in selling to the Egyptian police as hard steel...
...Mogadiscio. In the exploit they claimed more than 9,000 captives. Having lost British Somaliland (68,000 square miles) last August, and now having virtually won. Italian Somaliland (194,000 square miles), the British were, as ever, pleased but not given to overstatement. Comment of British military spokesman in Cairo: "Quite a nice exchange; we now have a Somaliland that is slightly better than...
...cases and the minds of these three men. In Ankara it was rumored that Anthony Eden would soon fly to Turkey, to brace the wavering demi-ally. At week's end Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu made a speech indicating that, even in Cairo, Anthony Eden was a bracer...
...newspaper wrote: "Neither of the parties can carry out a surprise attack in the western desert because of natural obstacles in the desert and because preparation of mechanized forces for a big offensive cannot be concealed." Two mornings later Sir Archibald Wavell called twelve crack war correspondents into his Cairo office and calmly announced: "Gentlemen, this morning at dawn our troops opened attack against Italian positions at Sidi Barrani." Then his grim mouth relaxed into a smile as he added: "It would be interesting to know whether any of you had any idea the attack started?" Most of these veteran...
...third general in three generations of Wavells. His father was and his son is with the famed Black Watch Regiment. Even his three daughters are in military work, and one is nicknamed Trooper. He is a strong family man who loves the luxury of spare time in his big Cairo house hidden in jacaranda trees behind the third hole of the Gezirah golf course. Finally, he is a reader, a thinker, not just a machine; he has put much thought on a post-war reconstruction of Britain around the "hard core of national courage...