Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africa TIME'S resident correspondent in Cairo, Harry Zinder, knows practically every newsmaker in the Middle East, from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who claims descent from Mohammed but has blue eyes and a blond beard) to stern, Bible-quoting General Montgomery of the British Eighth Army (who can't stand having his soldiers cough when he speaks and has a picture of Rommel pinned over his bed). Jack Belden, TIME'S roving correspondent in the East, probably knows General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell better than any other correspondent alive (he was with him on that long, nerve...
...Mandate. It was a sweltering summer's day, some five months ago, that Bernard Law Montgomery had walked into Cairo's crowded Shepheard's Hotel. Few people noticed the man who had come from England to boss the demoralized Eighth Army. He had been second choice for the job, after the death of Lieut. General William Henry Ewart ("Strafer") Gott. Outside military circles, the scrawny, gimlet-eyed little man was unknown...
Died. Rosalinde Maclardy, Lady Tedder, wife of Air Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, commander of the R.A.F. in the Middle East; in an air crash near Cairo. The Marshal's elder son, Arthur, of the R.A.F., was killed in aerial combat over France...
Portrait of a Man Posing for a Picture of a Man Posing for a Portrait-General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Rommel-rousing commander of Britain's Eighth Army, dutifully doing duty on a model's stand in Cairo...
...strategy behind the Allies' coordinated air assaults on Tunisia is explained on p. 25. TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden, reporting this strategy from Cairo last week, also described one of the raids-"not exciting, not heroic, but the kind of dull, monotonous, hard, nerve-straining work American bomber pilots have been doing for five months now in the Mid-East." His dispatch follows...