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...tour of West Africa and the Canary Islands. In Morocco he watched heavily robed native dancers, graciously accepted from Moroccan notables the traditional gift of two camels. At Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canaries, the generalissimo gave an encouraging speech to officers of the local Spanish garrison, told them that the world was beginning to recognize the "reality" of Spain's cause...
...northern Indo-China. By one of history's ironies, the Vichy French, with Japanese consent, had built up the fortress at Laokay during World War II. Then, in the postwar years; Nationalist Chinese occupation forces had destroyed it. Now, only partly rebuilt, and held by a thin garrison of Foreign Legionnaires, Moroccans and Vietnamese, Laokay looked untenable. It was under Communist mortar fire. Its abandonment and the retreat of its garrison 160 miles down the Red River valley to the Hanoi-Haiphong beachhead seemed likely...
...Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept...
Cotten and his men decide to desert and go to Texas and the Confederacy, but they have a change of heart when the Kiowas, infuriated because Chandler has executed their chief's son, storm the fort. With the garrison about to fall, the Indians indicate that they will settle for Chandler. He marches alone into their encampment to what-judging from his screams-must be a gaudy death...
...Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept...