Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greece reacted fiercely to the arrival of additional Bulgarian occupation forces. French sources reported that the underground had called a general strike, unleashed a new wave of sabotage. From London came word that Allied staff officers had returned to Cairo from three audacious days of conference with underground leaders. But around the Aegean port of Salonika, key to the Vardar Valley route to Central Europe, the Germans were strongly entrenched...
...Cairo last week a white-bearded Greek Orthodox prelate described how Greek priests are fighting Nazis and Italians. He was Bishop Panteleimon (rhymes with Damon), who escaped to Egypt from his see on the Greek Island of Euboea...
Portent. From Egypt last week came a hopeful ray for another dawn: Cairo turned on its lights, first of the war-benighted cities to do so. From Shepherds Hotel, caravansary for restless polyglots, lights blazed out again on the Mid-East mosaic: tanned cosmopolites sipping gin & limes on Shepheard's terrace; rattletrap taxis twisting up dust from the swarming streets; soft-voiced dragomans swishing at flies and barefooted fellahin ignoring them. Dawn's early ray found Cairo unchanged, unchallenging; but the city was free from fear...
Wrote Christian Science Monitor's Joseph G. Harrison from Cairo: "Some form of federation ... is approaching faster than many persons believe. ... If the present attempt fails, other attempts will succeed. . . . Modern economy and politics demand international cooperation on a regional basis...
Note on the shifting emphasis of World War II: Cadaverous James McCauley Landis, called in to rescue the Office of Civilian Defense from its dancer and bowling coordinator dog days two months after Pearl Harbor, is resigning soon to go to Cairo as a member of the British-American board on Middle East supplies...