Word: eritrea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Egypt, the Nazis could also swing south, strike at the great U.S. concentration base in Eritrea. From the Near East, they could swing farther east into India, striking at the communications lines of the United Nations to China. Wherever they went, south, east, or both, they could well expect to get some help from the native populations, for the loss of Egypt would strike British prestige a severe blow in all Mohammedan countries...
...shipped. There had to be wool belly-bands for troops in the tropics, fur for Arctic troops, plenty of woolens for the British Isles. There had to be food for all in the style to which U.S. soldiers are accustomed -and lemon extract had to get to Anchorage and Eritrea on schedule, along with the lumber for barracks and gasoline for the mess stoves...
...work, decided to hold his first press conference. He explained that the Mission's object had been to service and observe Lend-Lease planes, tanks, other equipment. To this end he had: 1) brought all previous American observers, technicians, advisers into his organization; 2) expanded Italian installations in Eritrea into supply and repair bases ("We took up the job where they left off; it was very convenient"); 3) established schools to train British personnel on U.S. equipment, and so thoroughly familiarized them with U.S. matériel that he could now turn the schools over to them...
...then overland by highway and railway, through renamed Persia to Soviet ports and railheads on the Caspian Sea, the U.S. was sending war goods to Stalin's Armies. Aircraft assembled at the Gulf delivery points were flown directly to Russia. And, as it had already done in Eritrea, the U.S. Army was providing supply bases for future U.S. forces in the Middle and Near East...
...When an A.P. dispatch from Egypt, undoubtedly passed by the British censors, reported the establishment of a U.S. "arsenal" in Eritrea, the War Department belatedly described this as "essential military information" and asked newspapers to refrain from publishing it. This attempt to conceal information that was already public knowledge abroad-a good example of confusing the U.S. people with the enemy-was frustrated by the fact that U.S. papers had already published...