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...known only heavy ones, or toward the national debt (at $230 billion), when they could hardly remember that economists had quaked when it first reached $50 billion? What would be the attitude toward foreign trade and investment of a man who had come to regard the Delhi-Cairo, Dakar, Brazil-Miami run as a glorified ride to the suburbs...
...invasion command in London. What Wilson acquired included some first-class tactical worries, headaching problems of supply, a set of tarnished political problems. All of these and more were wrapped up in a gargantuan geographic command, running from the Turko-Syrian border through the Mediterranean and across Africa to Dakar. Any operation against Europe from Gibraltar to the Dardanelles would be his problem...
...Most notable recent arestees: Pierre Etienne Flandin, ex-Foreign Minster under Marshal Pétain; Marcel Peyrouton, ex-Minister of the Interior under Pétain; Pierre Boisson, turncoat Governor General of French West Africa, who fired on a joint British-Free French landing at Dakar...
...from the days (1926-27) when it was a Broadway operetta and the fractious Riffs were all that most people knew about in North Africa. It tries hard to be immediately prewar, with cracks about Vichy and a Nazi plot to put a rail road across the Sahara to Dakar. But it remains an amusingly archaic, Technicolored story about an indolent U.S. café-pianist (Dennis Morgan) and a Riffhounding French officer (Bruce Cabot), who are rivals for a French songstress (Irene Manning). This triangle is menaced by El Khobar, masked leader of the intransigent Riffs. But the pianist...
...Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day. His method of travel to and from Africa is a military secret. For the rest of the trip he used a Douglas C-54, flying in it to Cairo and Teheran and back from Teheran to Cairo, Carthage, Malta, Sicily and finally to Dakar. His mode of travel from Dakar home was not disclosed...