Word: eritrea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians in London would negotiate as hard as they could to keep Eritrea and Somaliland, might be content there as elsewhere to see joint trusteeships which would maintain an "open door to Africa." Of Trees & Brooks. The Trieste issue had descended to a technical problem much too minute to be handled at the Truman-Stalin-Attlee level. The city would almost certainly be internationalized, but its ultimate fate would depend on where lines were drawn in its hinterland. Racial and historical factors moved strings back & forth over detailed maps of Venetia Julia province. The watercourses were most important, because...
Harried Italians had British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's word for it that Italy's African empire was gone. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Lion of Judah, licked his chops in the expectation of regaining Eritrea. In North Africa, the Grand Senussi Seyyid Mohamed Idris expected that Britain would hand him Cyrenaica under some form of protectorate. Disposition of Italian Libya and Tripoli had not yet been suggested...
Major Salmeri is a graduate of the New York University College of Medicine. Commissioned on July 15, 1941 he was ordered to North Africa in April, 1942, where he was assigned to the Engineering Department of the Eritrea Service Command, serving as District Surgeon and later as Surgeon...
When the activities in Eritrea lessened with the Allied victories in North Africa, Major Salmeri was transferred to the Persian Gulf Command. He served as Port and Station Surgeon at Khremsharr and later as Medical Inspector for the Teheran District. He returned to the United States in February, 1944, and relieves Captain Steven J. Starr, M. C., as Instructor in Military Sanitation and First Aid at the Chaplain School. Captain Starr is being transferred to the Station Hospital at Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island...
This was the second African stronghold one of our TIME & LIFE News Bureau men stumbled into ahead of the Army. Two years ago (eight months before Pearl Harbor) George Rodger strolled out the causeway to Massaua, the last seaport held by the Italians in Eritrea, was escorted to the Italian general's headquarters, found to his amazement that the Italians were still looking for someone to surrender to. He had dinner that night with the Italian commander, was on the friendliest of terms with the vanquished before the surrender ceremonies next...