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...Basenji, a breed recently recognized by the English Kennel Club, are dogs (which cannot bark nor yelp, but only softly "grooo") used in the African Congo for tracking game...
...reason and self-respect. As a boy he had made many friends on the playing fields of Eton. As a 17-year-old soldier he was decorated for valor in World War I. Then he had worked hard as an agent in the expansion of the Empire, in the Congo and in Libya, where he sadly disapproved of General Rodolfo Graziani's ruthlessness. At home in Italy he was the most popular member of the royal family. In Ethiopia he wanted to simplify the Italianate bureaucracy along British colonial lines, and just before assuming his duties...
...audience of about 200 Seniors, gathered in Eliot House last night for a dinner sponsored by the Harvard Alumni Association, lustily cheered Sir Gerald Campbell, British Minister to Washington, after he concluded an informal talk ranging from his personal experiences in the Congo and Canada to Britain's position...
Last week Governor General Pierre Ryckmans of the Belgian Congo announced that "unoccupied Belgium" was at war with Italy. Casus belli: Italy had committed hostile acts against Belgium, including the use of Belgian airdromes by Italian planes bombing Great Britain. The Governor General neglected to declare war against Germany, whose planes have also used Belgian airdromes to bomb Great Britain. Reason: Leopold, King of the Belgians, is a German prisoner of war. Nevertheless, the Governor General made it clear that the Congo would "continue the closest collaboration with Great Britain and her allies...
This added another 902,082 square miles to the broad belt of Central Africa which has cast its lot with Britain. The Belgian Congo lies squarely between De Gaullist French Equatorial Africa and the British colonies of Kenya and Tanganyika, but is too wild a region to become a corridor for operations between the two. The Belgian Government in London prepared to mobilize all Belgians abroad, between the ages of 18 and 35, to strengthen the Congo's defenses...