Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State Hull said a close investigation of Italian consular services would be made by Government agencies. Military authorities disclosed that they were clearing suspicious aliens out of the Canal Zone...
When the Germans discovered that only sacrifice squads were left in the $500,000,000 Maginot fastnesses, in they poured through a gap gouged out at the Saar. They also crossed the Rhine at Neuf-Brisach, where floods from a dynamited French canal dam failed to deter them. Their bombers concentrated on rail traffic behind the fortresses and reported destroying 30 French railway cars, sending several loaded with munitions high in the air. Southward German motorized and nonmotorized columns "competed with each other in tremendous marches," said the exultant German communique...
Most desirable to Italy are Egypt and the Suez Canal, the one rich in cotton, the other vital to reach Italy's present holdings in eastern Africa. Britain got sole sway over Egypt (which both Rome and Napoleon held in their day) in 1882 when France and Italy declined to share the expense of pacifying the country after it revolted against the extravagant grandson, Ismail, of able old Mehemet AH Pasha, who whipped the Turks. Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week. He did launch an armored column to take Djibouti, French...
...Nazi fifth columnists in Bogota last week distributed handbills telling Colombians that if that country abandoned the U. S. in favor of the Axis powers, Germany would give Colombia the Panama Canal...
Desperately, helplessly countries did what they could to prepare. In Egypt, Royal-Dutch-Shell Oil Co. fired 700 Italians overnight; Alexandria began evacuating incompetents. Italian laborers and pilots were discharged from the Suez Canal. Greece grew sensitive about vitM Salonika. Rumania called up 100,000 more...