Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CAIRO--Hussein Sirry Pasha, former Minister of Commerce and Public Works and a well-known civil engineer, formed a new government tonight with himself as Prime Minister. Sirry, nonpartisan, will continue Eygpt's policy of loyal help to Britain...
Afraid to announce that Greece was on the spot, Athens slipped word to Cairo, where Greek diplomatic quarters revealed the Axis price for peace: 1) immediate severance of economic relations with Great Britain; 2) cession to Italy of a strip of territory along the Albanian frontier; 3) cession to Bulgaria of a corridor to the Aegean; 4) permission to Italy to construct a military road from Albania to Salonika; 5) use of Greek air bases by Germany and Italy; 6) abdication of King George II and resignation of Premier John Metaxas...
With exultant whoops Rome claimed "enormous fires that could be seen at a great distance." Caustically Cairo replied that there had been no casualties and little damage, that only four planes had appeared. From San Francisco, Standard of California confirmed the British report, said only a water main and an oil pipe had been damaged...
...practical purposes, the Nile is Egypt. All Italian efforts would be directed toward taking the river. Once the Nile's three big cities-Alexandria, Cairo, Khartoum-were bagged, and the river crossed, Britain's resistance in North Africa would be near...
...great boon to the British at this point was well-meaning but jinx-bearing Major Kermit Roosevelt, who bobbed up in Cairo. The 26th U. S. President's second son joined the British Army in October 1939. The following February he resigned to lead "a modern crusade" to Finland, but the Finnish War ended too soon. Back with the British Army again last spring, promoted from second lieutenant to major, he went to Narvik, was there long enough to be driven out. He planned to go to France, but France collapsed before he got there. Arriving in Egypt...