Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Library of Congress has gone into the radio business. To a dozen radio stations-from Brooklyn, N.Y. to Yakima, Wash.-the Library last week had sold records of canal-boat ballads, loggers' songs, spirituals, blues, "hollers," recorded all over the land during the past 30 years...
Paradoxically the British, who are engaged in desperate defense of the Suez Canal, were this week also engaged in offensives away from the Suez Canal in both directions. The campaign in Syria sputtered in a confusion of amity and murder (see below). From Egypt the British staged an attack on Axis forces in Libya which had a look of desperate deadliness (see p. 31). But these were both defensive offensives. They were both blows struck in haste to ward off blows. The Syrian campaign was being fought because of a rumble of enmity to the north; the North African attack...
...Contention. Syria, slightly smaller than Nebraska, is the keystone of the whole Middle East. Firmly established there, the Germans could: 1) complete the encirclement of Turkey; 2) march on to Iraq and its oil fields; 3) execute a super-colossal grand slam on Palestine, Trans-Jordan and the Suez Canal, which, coupled with a drive from Libya, would chase the British out of the Mediterranean Theater. As it stood, the Germans had already bypassed Cyprus...
...Suez, too, perhaps depended the issue of war or peace for Japan, for the fall of Suez if the canal remained intact would bring the Mediterranean-bound Italian and French Fleets into the Indian Ocean. With peaceful expansion southward apparently blocked by The Netherlands East Indies (see p. 35), Japan must soon decide whether it can afford to risk expansion...
...Britain's wartime productivity was far short of what it should and might be. But last week, with Crete added to the somber list of defeats, a tide of opinion arose in Britain to the effect that one more major defeat-such as the loss of the Suez Canal-would call for a radical change, if not the exit of the Churchill Government. Few doubted that Prime Minister Churchill, due to face Parliament this week with regard to Crete, would encounter the first heavy criticism of his Prime Ministry...