Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CAIRO--Marshal Erwin Rommel has pulled back his crack German tank forces from exposed points in a 20-mile salient on the Egyptian front, where a withering bombardment from Allied planes and artillery was running their losses up to three times those of the Allies, front report said tonight...
Tension rose in Cairo. Men told each other: Something has got to break. It was like thunder from the desert, an intangible but ever-growing certainty that a blow was about to fall somewhere around the Mediterranean...
...would strike first? And where? Ordinary men-junior officers, correspondents, British Tommies, U.S. privates-did not have the answer. They simply knew that Churchill had been in Cairo, that reinforcements had been pouring into Egypt, that the British forces had a new aggressive commander...
Stab in the Back. It was at El Alamein that the Germans and the British actually faced each other; it was beyond El Alamein that the richest and most immediate rewards of conquest-Cairo, Suez-beckoned to Rommel. But the tense situation on that front invited action elsewhere...
Moscow to Cairo. But Tripper Churchill was not yet ready to go home. From second-front talks with Stalin he apparently returned once more to North Africa, where a United Nations' second front may be opened. He may even have made side trips from there. Not until eight days after the announcement that he had left Moscow did the British officially announce that Churchill was home. Just where he had been all the time was a military secret for the moment. But it was no secret that he had seen everything and everybody of importance in Egypt...