Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have learned that the ordinary citizen, from Cairo to Moscow to Chungking, is a lover of liberty and wants action-action now. He is ahead of his leaders, this plain citizen of Africa, or Europe, or Asia, or America. It annoys him that much of the might of the United Nations stands idle, awaiting action on some future...
Reports from Cairo made clear what those difficulties were. The British were hacking and unraveling his supply lines. In the last three and a half months Allied planes had plastered the Axis port of Tobruk with almost 4,000 tons of bombs...
This new technique has permitted the MARCH OF TIME to bring you the voices of some of our TIME & LIFE correspondents like Hart Preston (in Ankara), Harry Zinder (in Cairo), Steve Laird (in London), Holland McCombs (in Rio), Bob Sherrod and Teddy White (in Australia), Felix Belair (in Washington) and 14 others who spoke from all sorts of unexpected places. And several times our editors (like Military Expert Roy Alexander, or Foreign News Editor Wilder Hobson) have gone on the air as news commentators to give you their expert judgment on some important development...
Willkie left Cairo in a big, drab-painted B-24 bomber, transferred somewhere in Palestine to a Douglas DC-3, flew on to Ankara. There he talked with Turkey's jovial, troubled Premier Sükrü Saracoglu and cool Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu. The visitor left Turkey in full agreement with New York Times Correspondent Ray Brock's cable (approved by the Turkish Foreign Office): "Turkey is firmly anchored alongside the United Nations for the war's duration...
...Cairo correspondents, studying British communiques, concluded that a British raid on Tobruk Sept. 13 was yet another indication that the British Army had not mastered the technique of invasion. As at Dieppe, losses were high and results were indefinite. And, as at Dieppe, the Germans at Tobruk had formidable defense forces ready to meet Allied attack...