Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Matrûh fell, TIME received the following cable from its Correspondent Walter Graebner, who had paused in Cairo on his way to Russia...
Fateful Effects. Never before had North Africa seemed so near and so vital. From Cairo to Washington and London went a momentous memorandum, listing the danger to Britain's last hold on the Mediterranean: the fateful effects if Germany, by finally winning North Africa, achieves a junction with the Japanese and cuts the chief supply line from the U.S. to Russia and the U.S. Army's air-ferry lines to India and China. It recited the enormous value of the Allies' North African bases, within air reach of the Middle East, Russia and southern Europe (where...
...dispatches did not precisely identify the source of this document, but they made it clear that U.S. military men in Cairo approved its main conclusions: 1) the British forces now in Egypt, with all their U.S. planes, tanks and guns, cannot hold Suez and North Africa; 2) only a U.S. expeditionary force can prevent a disaster which, at this stage of the war, might be worse than the defeat of France...
...London Evening Standard's correspondent cabled from Cairo: "This is the story of Britain's regression in the Western Desert. . . . It is a story partly of faulty leadership, partly of our war machines, partly of our men who guide those machines to battle...
Somewhere west of Cairo, about two weeks ago, a few U.S. airmen and bombers appeared at an R.A.F. airdrome. Under Colonel Harry A. Halverson of Boone, Iowa they moved into stone quarters in the desert, shared an R.A.F. mess, labored mightily in the heat to prepare for their forays. First their long-range, four-engined B-24s (Liberators) struck across the Mediterranean and Turkey at Rumania's oilfields, possibly at other targets in the Black Sea (TIME, June 22). Last week eight U.S. B-24s (including one flown by an R.A.F. crew) attacked an Italian Fleet which...