Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, 58, Egypt's Minister of Defense, and premier at the start of World War II; of long illness which caused him to retire 14 months ago from the premiership; in Cairo...
...CAIRO--Fascist forces tonight were reported in "full retreat" from Britain's four-pronged invasion, of Italian East Africa after British forces captured the Eritrean railroad terminus of Agordat and "many hundreds of prisoners" in fierce battle...
...CAIRO-Britain's empire army, unleashing a mighty "death blow" against the Italian base of Tobruk and its 20,000 to 30,000 entrapped defenders, has smashed more than five miles through the inner defenses of the Libyan strong-hold since dawn, it was stated officially tonight...
...having nearly half his Army so disorganized as to be out of action-Marshal Graziani was in turn praying for help from home. The disorganization of his armies was the more complete in that most of their attack equipment, massed in the east for a drive on Alexandria and Cairo, had been lost. (The British were astonished at how heavily the Italians had planned to travel, and also at curious shortages in the equipment, especially steel helmets, barbed wire.) Graziani, in explaining himself to Mussolini, put the blame of his defeat on a shortage of tanks. While Graziani worked desperately...
...Connor, a Scot with an Irish name, who won a silver medal from the Italians for valor on the Piave Italian front in 1917. Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, Commander of the forces in Egypt, had planned this whole adventure on his flower-crowded island in the Nile at Cairo with General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Middle East, who blessed it with a ringing Order of the Day: ". . . In everything but numbers we are superior to the enemy. We are more highly trained. We shoot straighter. We have better equipment. Above...