Word: chad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the first novel since Chad Hanna by one of America's better historical novelists, Walter D. Edmonds. In it he puts that immortal American, the Horatio Alger hero, into period pants. The period: the 1830s, in Manhattan...
Heretofore Edmonds' novels have rambled through the past of his native upstate New York, chiefly along the towpaths of the Erie Canal. He put the canal and its folkways into Rome Haul, Erie Water, Chad Hanna. He deserted the ditch only long enough to write his most successful novel, Drums Along the Mohawk. New York State's No. 1 regional historical novelist, he has an ability to bathe his restorations in a bright, bucolic, pre-New York Central freshness...
...Pleven was a zealot for continuing the fight. After he had pointed out that Equatorial Africa depends for its livelihood on the British-controlled coastline, after he had told the inhabitants what would happen to their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...
Many observers took all this with more than a grain of salt. Heavy Nazi infiltrations have long been reported in French Morocco. Fortnight ago it was said that French North African troops had crossed the Sahara to a camp near the De Gaullist headquarters around Lake Chad...
...reported that a French North African column had marched south across the Sahara to N'Guigmi on the northwestern shores of great, marshy Lake Chad, base of General Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces. And to the West African port of Dakar convoys kept bringing artillery, armored cars and tanks apparently returned to Vichy by the Nazis. This week General Maxime Weygand flew to Vichy, rushed to confer with Marshal Pétain. A Vichy-De Gaullist clash for France's African Empire-even war between France and Great Britain-seemed near...