Word: garrisoning
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...threat of a Nazi Army moving through France and Spain to cork up Gibraltar and garrison northwest Africa was serious indeed to the British. If such a campaign succeeded, the British would practically have to abandon the western Mediterranean and Germany would have another base for the Battle of the Atlantic, as well as a steppingstone on the route to South America via Dakar...
...last week strode smartly past Belvoir's commandant, wiry, fox-faced Colonel Roscoe C. Crawford, were more Engineers than anyone had seen together since World War I. Only two weeks before, Belvoir's garrison had been 3,000. Within a month it will be 10,000, and more will shortly be training at the Corps's second replacement training center at Fort Leonard Wood, near Rolla, Mo. By July 1, when the Army has hit a strength of 1,418,000, there will be 91,000 Engineers...
...would take at least several days, perhaps a fortnight, for General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell to organize a counteroffensive with the troops which passed through Alexandria from East Africa to the Egyptian Front. But meanwhile the news from scant forces holding the land front was encouraging. The British garrison at Tobruch was not merely besieged, it was fighting back. The Germans seemed to have forgotten that the British still supplied the garrison from...
...despair, Prince Abdul Illah tried the last shot in his locker, a counter-coup which was promptly squelched by the Basra garrison, then lit out for the sanctuary of Trans-Jordan in an R.A.F. plane...
...reverse than ahead. R. H. Mansfield surveys "What's Going On" along Harvard's waterfront and reports that only five men out of the-thirty-seven Seniors in the N.R.O.T.C. are contemplating a civilian postgraduate career. Most interesting to landlubbers, though, is the Gallup poll which E. W. Garrison has made of the Harvard sailors. The local gobs prefer destroyers to battleships, ships to planes, and blondes or brunettes to redheads. More than half the men don't smoke, and only a few go through a pack per day. Freshmen and Seniors are ardent Wellesley fans, with Smith winning...