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...tall, tousled beanpole of a man packed his tiny wife and three small children into the family Ford and set out northward through the streets of Washington. The Hon. Joseph Hurst Ball, 35, was heading home to Minnesota...
Trinidad is the southern spearhead, where defense is most urgent because it lies athwart the most practicable route for an enemy move from Dakar in western Africa, thence to some landing point on the eastern hump of South America, and northward to the Canal Zone, Central America, the U.S. itself. Geographically, Trinidad is also in a position to protect-or to dominate-the whole uncertain reach of northern South America. So far it is not a protection but only a position...
...drives in East Africa had resolved themselves into one campaign-an encirclement of Addis Ababa. When he took Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini's strategy was to send his main attack (Marshals De Bono and Badoglio) southward from Eritrea, and to meet it with a smaller containing attack (General Graziani) northward from Italian Somaliland. This time the British strategy was to bottle as many troops as possible in Eritrea and then converge on Addis Ababa from the northwest and south. The main British attack came from the south...
...same time Vichy released reports that another raiding party, continuing on from Murzuch, had moved northward along the Algerian frontier, captured the fort of Gadames. If this were true, it would put them astride a well-built north-south motor road, 300 miles southwest of Tripoli, just across the border from General Weygand's garrison at Fort Saint in the Tunisia-Algeria-Libya corner...
Strategic Barentu, 70 miles inside Eritrea near the Ethiopian border, fell barely 24 hours after the British capture of the railroad town of Agordat, 40 miles northward, after fierce fighting that cost the Italians heavily in dead, wounded and prisoners...