Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME is still "curt, clear," but in reference to Death Valley Scotty (March 24) by no means "complete." Banker Gerard has no reason to hope for "a cut on the $1.10 Scotty took from tourists who came to gaze at his fancy desert residence...
...British nowhere put up real resistance. They claimed they evacuated Bengasi without losing a man. The British communiqué stated that British advance forces had withdrawn "to choose our own battleground." The British were evidently perfectly willing to cede territory, since in desert warfare, as in sea warfare, the destruction of enemy fighting units is the only thing that counts...
...whose appointment to Libya must have maddened the Italians: he distinguished himself against them in World War I. General Rommel apparently used one mechanized division (mostly German) in his giant raid, and by outflanking tactics took first el-Aghéila, the farthest point of British advance, then the desert outposts of Marsa el-Bréga and Aged...
...years ago, with Attorney David Levinson, he went to New Mexico to fight for ten miners who were facing a charge of murdering a sheriff. He and Levinson were kidnapped, carried into the desert and beaten. From that adventure Minor returned a Communist hero. He kept his heroism green by fighting for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil...
...which prohibits importation from countries infected with hoof-&-mouth disease (Argentina is one. Others: Ireland and Britain- }. Patagonia, the southern part of Argentina, has never had hoof-&-mouth disease, is protected from the nation's chief cattle-growing regions by a mountain range and 200 miles of desert. The least Argentina expects from a Good Neighbor is permission to ship fresh meat from Patagonia. A convention negotiated by the sympathetic U. S. State Department in 1935 would give them this permission, but so far the Senate has refused to ratify...